weaksauce
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: PIE word
 *sḗh₂l
From weak (adjective) + sauce (noun), referring to a sauce that lacks flavour. By surface analysis, weak + -sauce (suffix used to add emphasis to adjectives).
Inflected forms:
form: weak sauce
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: weaksauces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: weak sauce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking in interest or substance; boring, disappointing, lackluster.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
informal
not-comparable
examples: Some California students provided us with a taste of slang words that are now catching on, although, thanks to MTV, you have already heard some of them. […] Good events or things are "dope." Bad events are "weak sauce." "Right on" is "that's sweet." "That's awesome" is "that's the bomb."
Blazing at a very healthy 30 frames per second with NO clipping, NO slowdown, and NO loss of graphic quality, this one made Eggo run to the nearest restroom after his ‘weak sauce’ stomach gave out.
Getting your butt thrashed by those curvaceous powdery paths? Or are ya getting tired of that weaksauce boarder of yours? Here are some codes that should do the trick: […]
[T]he news bunny ran up to him, saying, "Officer, did you have trouble catching up with Batman? Was it an exciting chase?" The surfer cop struck a semi-heroic pose for the camera and said, "Weak sauce." Then he quickly walked Batman to the black-and-white, where he was put into the backseat.
She gave Julius a punch to his arm and headed back toward the fair, leaving Julius and me in yet another showdown, super-stick versus weaksauce-sword.
The quality, I'm sad to say, is sometimes weak-sauce.
'I'm not scared, I'm just not stupid.' Can't we just, like, dye our hair purple or—' […] Even to Julia it sounds weaksauce. 'That's not scary,' Becca says. 'I want something scary.'
The judge [Amit Mehta] told the ex-Trump aide's lawyer, Stanley Woodward, that their argument was hard to support absent direct evidence that Mr [Peter] Navarro was actually told not to comply with the subpoena. "I still don't know what the president said—I don't have any words from the former president," said the judge, who added that testimony from Mr Navarro about how Mr [Donald] Trump once expressed regret for not letting him testify was "pretty weak sauce".
gloss: Someone or something that is lacking in interest or substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
informal
examples: Had a run-in on the bus with some weak sauces.
gloss: The quality or state of lacking in interest or substance; boringness, disappointment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
informal
uncountable
examples: […] New England Asters. Not the pale domesticates of the perennial border, the weak sauce of lavender or sky blue, but full-on royal purple that would make a violet shrink.
gloss: Synonym of weak tea (“weak or feeble arguments, efforts, or proposals”).
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
informal
uncountable
examples: But when I turned pro, I knew I needed a really badass name, 'cuz it intimidates n00bs, who will disconnect just when they see me show up. And I'm like, "Bye—take that weaksauce home."
Related words: weak point
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