spicen

English

Etymology

From spice +‎ -en.

Verb

spicen (third-person singular simple present spicens, present participle spicening, simple past and past participle spicened)

  1. (transitive) To make spicy, or to spice
    • 1905, A Little Book of Rutgers Tales, page 119:
      In the evening it was different. Miss Reed attended a concert arranged for charity's sake by the guests. She attended it with Vernon, but that made no difference to Jim. The masterful “rusher ” gives his opponent opportunities occasionally, to keep him in good humor and to spicen the life and interest of his quarry.
    • 2002, Andrew Harvey, The Direct Path:
      She was a vibrant, big-boned, red-faced woman straight out of Chaucer, and we were great friends; because she couldn't leave her cloister and needed to exercise every day, she had had to invent things “to spicen life up a bit.”
    • 2012, Steven Fornal, Praying The Price:
      She is confident that she has plenty of data bits to spicen up and personalize her first six shows.

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