Meaning

3 senses

  1. An ornamental box for keeping spices.

  2. (colloquial)A hot-tempered person.

  3. (Ireland)Synonym of spice bag.

Origin

From spice + box.

From spice + box.

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Forms

plural: spiceboxes

Synonyms

1 synonyms
spice bag

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
sphinxsphygmomanometerspiceB1spickspicyB1spiderB1

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