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Definition of Spice up
1. Verb. Add herbs or spices to.
Category relationships: Cookery, Cooking, Preparation
Generic synonyms: Flavor, Flavour, Season
Specialized synonyms: Ginger, Pepper
Derivative terms: Spice, Spice, Spice, Spicery, Zest
2. Verb. Make more interesting or flavorful. "Spice up the evening by inviting a belly dancer"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Specialized synonyms: Salt
Derivative terms: Spicery
Definition of Spice up
1. Verb. To enhance the flavor of something by adding spice to it. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) To make more exotic, fun or extravagant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spice Up
Literary usage of Spice up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Deck the Stage! by Lindsay Price (2001)
"And you three decided, let me get the precise wording here, you three decided
to "spice up" the carols. Is that right? (The students do not answer) Candy, ..."
2. Adventure Guide to Maui by Sharon Hamblin (2005)
"... steaks and chicken or to spice up chili, chowder, tofu and eggs. Touted as "an
eruption of flavors," Volcano Spice comes in mild, medium or "blazing hot ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1862)
"A dot at the bottom of this fold will represent Charleroi ; another, a third of
the spice up, Q'latres Bras ; another, near the top, Brussels. ..."
4. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1841)
"Come, spice up some ale, and clap it on the fire, Will." With ready hand, Will
obeyed the order, by filling the bright kettle with " the blood of Sir John ..."
5. Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups by Harvey Daniels (2002)
"So instead of beginning with role sheets, we use a training process like the one
outlined on pages 55-71, and save the roles to spice up ongoing groups ..."
6. Spices by Henry Nicholas Ridley (1912)
"... L.), though used as a spice up to 1480, have long been used only as a drug.
For this purpose they were very largely cultivated in Java till about 1890 ..."
7. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1892)
"... with a diligence worthy a better direction, in order that he might, if possible,
spice up his vapid stuff with an air of learning or classic nicety. ..."
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