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gravy

[ grey-vee ]

noun

, plural gra·vies.
  1. the fat and juices that drip from cooking meat, often thickened, seasoned, flavored, etc., and used as a sauce for meat, potatoes, rice, etc.
  2. Slang.
    1. profit or money easily obtained or received unexpectedly.
    2. money illegally or dishonestly acquired, especially through graft.
  3. something advantageous or valuable that is received or obtained as a benefit beyond what is due or expected.


gravy

/ ˈɡreɪvɪ /

noun

    1. the juices that exude from meat during cooking
    2. the sauce made by thickening and flavouring such juices
  1. slang.
    money or gain acquired with little effort, esp above that needed for ordinary living
  2. slang.
    wonderful; excellent

    it's all gravy



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Word History and Origins

Origin of gravy1

1350–1400; 1905–10 gravy fordef 2; Middle English gravé, gravey < Old French gravé, perhaps misreading of grané (compare grain spice) < Latin granātus full of grains. See grain, -ate 1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of gravy1

C14: from Old French gravé, of uncertain origin

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Example Sentences

This method is great for sauces — including a quick pan sauce created after cooking a protein — and gravies that are only marginally looser than desired.

Like I always say, we try to do the best we can in the Dominican and Venezuela, and then anything else is gravy.

It’s especially good if the bread is a little sweet and the gravy a little too salty, so your senses keep getting mildly overwhelmed in different ways, like going in and out of the cooler saunas in a Korean spa.

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He’s been in the kitchen since Thursday — baking dressing and stirring pots of gravy — and probably will not leave until it’s time to spend Thanksgiving with his own family.

This has been a very different year, so do something different with your gravy.

Sage and sausage patty came next, served between cumin scented Buttermilk biscuits and smothered in a black pepper country gravy.

I promised never again to wax lyrical about the fries in gravy.

The house version of chicken fried steak is, in fact, pork-fried steak, veiled in panko breadcrumbs under a mantle of gravy.

On the northeasternmost point of the U.S., pancake-like ployes are a daily staple, whether covered in syrup or soaking up gravy.

The tomato sauce is ‘gravy’ to many Italian-Americans of a certain class.

In eating bread with meat, never dip it into the gravy on your plate, and then bite the end off.

Zoms—Miss—take care of your feathers—has the scoundrel spilt the gravy down your back?

Add four hard-boiled yolks of eggs, and pour gravy all over, cover with puff paste, and bake for one hour and a quarter.

Arrange the chickens neatly in an entre dish, pour the gravy over and serve.

Let this stew for an hour; then take out the duck, strain the gravy, and remove all fat, and add plenty of mushrooms.

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