sauce
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: PIE word
 *sḗh₂l
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 (“to 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).
Inflected forms:
form: sauces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sawce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sauces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: saucing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sauced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sauced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sawce
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: apple sauce; mint sauce
[Prince Paul.] […] But, believe me, you are wrong to run down cookery. For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce. I have never had time enough to think seriously about it, but I feel it is in me, I feel it is in me.
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.
gloss: Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in
pos: noun
tags: Australia
India
New-Zealand
UK
countable
uncountable
examples: [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce
gloss: Alcohol, booze.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Maybe you should lay off the sauce.
[…] 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.
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.)
gloss: Vitality; capability or talent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: It's over for that guy. He lost the sauce.
gloss: Anabolic steroids.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: "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.
‘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.
gloss: Vegetables.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
obsolete
slang
uncountable
examples: I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse [...]
[...] 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."
gloss: Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
pos: noun
tags: UK
US
countable
dialectal
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To add sauce to; to season.
pos: verb
gloss: To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.
pos: verb
examples: Earth, yield me roots; / Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate / With thy most operant poison!
Meales, uſually ſavvced vvith a healthfull hunger, vvherein no incocted Crudities oppreſſe Nature, and cheriſh diſeaſe: […]
gloss: To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
pos: verb
examples: Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.
gloss: To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
examples: I'll sauce her with bitter words.
"A bit of real starvin' would do them no 'arm, and I would 'ave less sauce." "What, has Willie sauced you?" "Yes, when 'e woke up." […] "Wot did he say?" "Cursed me good and proper, 'e did."
gloss: To send or hand over.
pos: verb
tags: slang
Synonyms: sowl
Derived words: 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
sauceboat
sauce boat
saucebox
sauce crayon
saucedish
sauce for the goose
sauceless
saucelike
saucemaker
saucemaking
sauceman
saucepan
sauceplate
saucepot
saucier
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
oversauce
sauce up
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