Synonyms of the word

pungency

• n. The state of being pungent.
• n. A foul odor.

bite

• v. (transitive) To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth.
• v. (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
• v. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
• v. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
• v. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
• v. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
• v. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some…
• v. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
• v. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be…
• v. (transitive) To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense.
• v. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so…
• v. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
• v. (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
• v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
• v. (intransitive, African American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
• n. The act of biting.
• n. The wound left behind after having been bitten.
• n. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
• n. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
• n. (slang) Something unpleasant.
• n. (slang) An act of plagiarism.
• n. A small meal or snack.
• n. (figuratively) aggression.
• n. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of…
• n. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
• n. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
• n. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else,…

humor

• n. American spelling of humour.
• v. American spelling of humour.

humour

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
• n. (uncountable) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by…
• n. (archaic or historical) Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of…
• n. (medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
• n. (obsolete) Moist vapour, moisture.
• v. (transitive) To pacify by indulging.

raciness

• n. The property of being racy.

sharpness

• n. (uncountable) the cutting ability of an edge; keenness.
• n. (uncountable) the fineness of the point a pointed object.
• n. (countable) The product or result of being sharp.
• n. (of food etc) pungency or acidity.
• n. (of an image) distinctness, focus.
• n. (of intelligence) acuteness or acuity.
• n. (obsolete) edge or blade.

spice

• n. (countable, uncountable) Plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food.
• n. (figuratively, uncountable) Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting,…
• n. (uncountable, Yorkshire) Sweets, candy.
• n. (obsolete) Species; kind.
• v. (transitive) To add spice or spices to.
• n. (nonce word) plural of spouse.

spicery

• n. Spices, in general.
• n. (archaic) A repository of spices.

spiciness

• n. The property of being spicy.

wit

• n. (now usually in the plural) Sanity.
• n. (obsolete usually in the plural) The senses.
• n. Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
• n. The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
• n. Intelligence; common sense.
• n. Humour, especially when clever or quick.
• n. A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, chiefly archaic) Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively).
• prep. (Southern US) Alternative spelling of with.

witticism

• n. a witty remark.

wittiness

• n. the quality of being witty.