Timeline for One word/phrase to describe the reaction when you eat a very spicy-hot food
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| Jan 5, 2018 at 10:50 | history | protected | tchrist♦ | ||
| Jan 5, 2018 at 9:37 | comment | added | Lawrence | @Mari-LouA There's Aaaaaaaaah. It even has variant pronunciations to signal satisfaction or pain. :) | |
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| Feb 6, 2014 at 0:44 | vote | accept | Safira | ||
| Jan 26, 2014 at 18:10 | comment | added | Mitch | There's no general single word in English for the concept you describe in Indonesian. | |
| Jan 26, 2014 at 17:51 | comment | added | WS2 | If you can still speak just ask the waiter for a spoonful of sugar. In India, I was once reduced to dancing round the supper table, my mouth in agony, having bitten into a chilli, until the waiter who knew what was going on produced a heaven-sent spoon of sugar. The pain subsided immediately. | |
| Jan 26, 2014 at 17:44 | comment | added | John Lawler | Actually, I learned Bahasa Minangkabau and Bahasa Aceh first; I found I had to learn Bahasa Melayu to read the dictionaries. I'm a grammarian by profession, after all. Malay is a very easy language for English speakers to pick up; the only problem is that there are almost no cognates. | |
| Jan 26, 2014 at 16:39 | answer | added | Mari-Lou A | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 26, 2014 at 16:36 | comment | added | Safira | jbeldock and mari lou a, okay.. I've edited the question. I just presumed that if there is a single word for that in my mother tongue, a single word must also (possibly) exist in English. @JohnLawler: You've learnt Bahasa Indonesia? How, that's great! I'm amazed. | |
| Jan 26, 2014 at 16:33 | history | edited | Safira | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Jan 26, 2014 at 16:30 | history | suggested | Patrick Călinescu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
catch their breath, and many other things
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| Jan 26, 2014 at 16:25 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | One word. Really? Only one? To describe that feeling in your mouth? Are you sure? :( | |
| Jan 26, 2014 at 16:23 | comment | added | John Lawler | Pedas in Bahasa, pica in Mexican Spanish. Picar is a Spanish verb meaning 'to prick (like a thorn or needle)' and picante is an adjective derived from it. One warns people about a food by saying Se pica 'it pricks itself', a typical reflexive usage. Our (American) family learned this when we went to Mexico and learned Spanish, and that's what we all say now. There really isn't any good term for it in English, so we behaved like English speakers always do and stole a word from another language. Since I've learned Bahasa, I use pedas, too. | |
| Jan 26, 2014 at 16:21 | comment | added | jbeldock | I have seen people use the phrase "eye-watering" to refer to how hot something is, and I think I once read someone use "breath-taking" in the same context, but neither of those is the single word you want. I once saw a restaurant that makes spicy chicken wings refer to the hottest variety as "nuclear" but that is of course metaphoric. If you're looking for a single word which means "spicy" and "extremely" I think it may not exist. | |
| Jan 26, 2014 at 16:19 | history | edited | Safira | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 26, 2014 at 16:11 | history | asked | Safira | CC BY-SA 3.0 |