sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɔːs/
ipa: /sɔs/
ipa: /sos/
ipa: /sɑs/
ipa: /soːs/
homophone: source (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: sauces
form: sawce
Etymology: PIE word
 *séh₂ls
From Middle English sauce, from Old French sause, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), past participle of saliō (“I salt”), from sal. Doublet of salsa.
For the meaning development compare Ancient Greek ἥδυσμα (hḗdusma) ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (whence also English sweet).
Senses: examples: text: You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
ref: 2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, →ISBN, page 192:
text: apple sauce; mint sauce
glosses: A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
examples: [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce
glosses: Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in
examples: text: Maybe you should lay off the sauce.
text: […] she was thinking of her first husband, who was a heel to end all heels and a constant pain in the neck to her till one night he most fortunately walked into the River Thames while under the influence of the sauce and didn't come up for days.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: I've been pretty much off the sauce during the last week, trying to get Pepper to like me again. (Horace won't drink with me any more.)
ref: 1993, Tristan Hawkins, Pepper, London: Flamingo, →ISBN, page 110:
synonyms: word: adult beverage
word: alcohol
word: bevvy
word: booze
word: carouse
word: drink
raw_tags: in context
word: grog
word: libation
word: liquor
word: lush
word: nightcap
word: potation
word: potent potable
word: sauce
word: shot
word: strong-water
word: tiddly
word: tincture
word: tipple
qualifier: usually “the”
glosses: Alcohol, booze.
examples: text: It's over for that guy. He lost the sauce.
synonyms: juice
qualifier: usually “the”
glosses: Vitality; capability or talent.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Anabolic steroids.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
examples: text: "See here, Captain!" He planted himself squarely in front of Faramir, his hands on his hips, and a look on his face as if he was addressing a young hobbit who had offered him what he called "sauce" when questioned about visiting the orchard.
ref: 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, volume 2, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., published 1968, →ISBN, page 691:
text: ‘Well, you know what Matchett’s like! Just about bring herself to talk to me because I’m housemaid, but if the gardener’s boy so much as looks at ’er it’s sauce,’ said Sarah.
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
examples: text: I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse [...]
ref: 1833, John Neal, The Down-Easters: &c. &c. &c., volume 1, Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 91:
text: [...] and all would be well only for a remark of a little boy who, when asked if he will have some more of the sauce, says he "don't want no strawberries pickled in kerosene."
ref: 1882, George W. Peck, “Unscrewing the Top of a Fruit Jar”, in Peck's Sunshine:
glosses: Vegetables.
examples: text: Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers […] they dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt.
ref: 1705, Robert Beverley, The History of Virginia:
text: The first night of our expedition, we boiled our meat; and I asked the landlady for a little sauce, she told me to go to the garden and take as much cabbage as I pleased, and that, boiled with the meat, was all we could eat.
ref: 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, “Ch. VIII”, in A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier:
glosses: Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
Synonyms: sowl
Hyponyms: admiral sauce
admiral's sauce
Albert sauce
alec sauce
Algerian sauce
allemande sauce
apple sauce
applesauce
apple-sauce
aurora sauce
barbecue sauce
barbeque sauce
BBQ sauce
bearnaise sauce
béarnaise sauce
Béchamel sauce
bechamel sauce
béchamel sauce
[Term?]
Big Mac sauce
black bean sauce
black-bean sauce
Bolognese sauce
Bordelaise sauce
bread sauce
brown sauce
buffalo sauce
burger sauce
Café de Paris sauce
caper sauce
charcutière sauce
cheese sauce
chili sauce
chippie sauce
chippy sauce
Choron sauce
cocktail sauce
Colbert sauce
comeback sauce
coronation sauce
Cumberland sauce
daughter sauce
dipping sauce
donair sauce
duck sauce
fancy sauce
fish sauce
Foyot sauce
fry sauce
green sauce
gypsy sauce
hamburger sauce
hard sauce
hoisin sauce
hollandaise sauce
honey dill sauce
horseradish sauce
hot sauce
Jezebel sauce
laurier-sauce
lobster sauce
Louis sauce
Madeira sauce
magic sauce
Maltese sauce
mambo sauce
marchand de vin sauce
Marie Rose sauce
Mary Rose sauce
meat sauce
Melba sauce
Metaxa sauce
meunière sauce
mignonette sauce
mild sauce
mint sauce
mother sauce
mumbo sauce
Nantua sauce
oyster sauce
palava sauce
palaver sauce
Paloise sauce
pasta sauce
pepper sauce
pizza sauce
plum sauce
pomodoro sauce
Portuguese sauce
poulette sauce
ranchero sauce
red sauce
Rhode Island sauce
rooster sauce
rosé sauce
salsa sauce
samurai sauce
sauce Robert
secret sauce
Shirley sauce
Skagen sauce
soy sauce
soya sauce
spaghetti sauce
special sauce
spiedie sauce
steak sauce
sugar-butter sauce
suprême sauce
sweet-and-sour sauce
sweet bean sauce
Tabasco sauce
tartare sauce
tartar sauce
tianmian sauce
tiger sauce
tomato sauce
tonkatsu sauce
Valois sauce
vodka sauce
white sauce
wing sauce
Worcester sauce
Worcestershire sauce
wow-wow sauce
XO sauce
yum yum sauce
Zigeuner sauce
Derived terms: awesome-sauce
awesome sauce
fair shake of the sauce bottle
fair suck of the sauce bottle
fair suck of the sauce stick
goated with the sauce
hunger is a good sauce
hunger is the best sauce
hunger sauce
Korean sauce
more sauce than meat
poor man's sauce
sass
sauce-alone
sauce boat
sauce crayon
sauce for the goose
sauceless
saucepan
saucepot
saucy
secret sauce
serve someone the same sauce
serve someone with the same sauce
weaksauce
weak sauce
what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
Related terms: sense: alcohol
word: hit the sauce
sense: alcohol
word: lost in the sauce
sense: alcohol
word: on the sauce
sense: alcohol
word: sauced
sense: alcohol
word: sauce parlor
sense: alcohol
word: sauce parlour