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spyce

spyce is the obsolete form of spice.

Meaning of spice

Noun

spice (countable and uncountable, plural spices)

  1. Aromatic or pungent plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavor food.
    • Vanilla itself was transplanted from Madagascar, the main source of the spice, to Polynesia a century ago.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 242
  2. (uncountable) The quality of being spicy.
    • What spice level do you want for your pad thai? I recommend mild.
    Synonyms:
    spiciness
  3. (figuratively, uncountable) Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting, or engaging.
    • variety is the spice of life
  4. (uncountable) A psychoactive neocannabinoid.
  5. (Yorkshire, uncountable) Sweets, candy.
    • Let's go daan to t'spice shop an see what they've i stock
  6. (obsolete) Species; kind.

See all 13 meanings of spice

Forms of spyce

pluralspyces

Words that rhyme with spyce

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Questions about spyce

What is spyce the obsolete form of?
Spyce is the obsolete form of spice.

Words near spyce in the dictionary

  1. spycam
  2. spycams
  3. spycatcher
  4. spycatchers
  5. spycatching
  6. spyce
  7. spyced
  8. spyces
  9. Spychalski
  10. Spychalskis
  11. spycop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spyce (page history and authors); spice (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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