spicen

present singular third person spicens · participle present spicening · participle past spicened · past spicened

1. transitiveTo make spicy, or to spice

   She is confident that she has plenty of data bits to spicen up and personalize her first six shows.

   2012, Steven Fornal, Praying The Price

   2 more examples

   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.

   1905, A Little Book of Rutgers Tales, page 119

   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.”

   2002, Andrew Harvey, The Direct Path