If a bibliophile likes books, then what is the -phile word for someone who enjoys eating spicy food?
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3Full disclosure: made up on the spot. capsaiciphile– Dan BronMar 1, 2018 at 15:40
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Sorry @Dan Bron, someone got there first: Transcendental Capsaicinophilic Society
Quoted in the Economist in 1998, I think a capsaicinophile is the closest you'll get, even if it's not yet in dictionaries.
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1+1, although you'll no doubt receive objections to the mishmash of Latin and Greek used to construct this neologism...– GnawmeMar 1, 2018 at 16:36
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This works only if spicy but not hot is a concept you can't embrace or you eat habenero peppers as some misguided sign of personal prowess.– KarlGMar 1, 2018 at 16:50
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1I suspect karukeumophile would do, if you wanted to stay all Greek. Spice = καρύκευμα.– Andrew Leach ♦Mar 1, 2018 at 19:09
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The ancient Greeks didn't have a word for capsaicin or spicy American peppers; the modern Greek is Καψικόν or Τσίλι, basically kapsikon or tsili.– Stuart FMar 18 at 15:54