piquant
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Meanings
Adjective
1. spiky, spiny
2. piquant, pungent, spicy-hot (of food)
3. cold; ice-cold
4. scathing (of humor, a joke, etc.)
5. attractive (usually of a person)
Examples8
freezing cold
ice-cold wind
It's too spicy for me.
This spicy sauce tastes so good!
A pungent, salty odor wafted from the kitchen.
Time withers the roses, but wears down the thorns.