SPICERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spicery mean? 

• SPICERY (noun)
  The noun SPICERY has 1 sense:

1. the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored

  Familiarity information: SPICERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPICERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

spice; spicery; spiciness

Hypernyms ("spicery" is a kind of...):

taste property (a property appreciated via the sense of taste)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spicery"):

bite; pungency; raciness; sharpness (a strong odor or taste property)

nip; piquance; piquancy; piquantness; tang; tanginess; zest (a tart spicy quality)

hotness; pepperiness (a hot spiciness)

Derivation:

spice (make more interesting or flavorful)

spice (add herbs or spices to)

 Context examples 

It was indeed I and the black cook, both from the ship 'La Rose de Gloire,' of Southampton, who did set upon the Flanders merchant and rob him of his spicery and his mercery, for which, as we well know, you hold a warrant against us.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)