'sauceless
World English Dictionary
sauce (sɔːs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | any liquid or semiliquid preparation eaten with food to enhance its flavour |
| 2. | anything that adds piquancy |
| 3. | (US), (Canadian) stewed fruit |
| 4. | dialect (US) vegetables eaten with meat |
| 5. | informal impudent language or behaviour |
| —vb | |
| 6. | to prepare (food) with sauce |
| 7. | to add zest to |
| 8. | to make agreeable or less severe |
| 9. | informal to be saucy to |
| [C14: via Old French from Latin salsus salted, from salīre to sprinkle with salt, from sal salt] | |
| 'sauceless | |
| —adj | |
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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