The Italian word of the week: “Piccante”

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Piccante” means spicy, hot, piquant:

Ha un sapore piccante - it tastes hot

salsa piccante - spicy (or hot) sauce

But piccante can also have a figurative meaning (biting, cutting, pungent):

parole piccanti - cutting words

satire piccante - biting satire

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