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sauce

[saws] noun, verb, sauced, sauc⋅ing.
–noun
1. any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
2. stewed fruit, often puréed and served as an accompaniment to meat, dessert, or other food: cranberry sauce.
3. something that adds piquance or zest.
4. Informal. impertinence; sauciness.
5. Slang. hard liquor (usually prec. by the): He's on the sauce again.
6. Archaic. garden vegetables eaten with meat.
–verb (used with object)
7. to dress or prepare with sauce; season: meat well sauced.
8. to make a sauce of: Tomatoes must be sauced while ripe.
9. to give piquance or zest to.
10. to make agreeable or less harsh.
11. Informal. to speak impertinently or saucily to.

Origin:
1300–50; ME < MF < LL salsa, n. use of fem. of L salsus salted, ptp. of sallere to salt, deriv. of sāl salt


sauceless, adjective
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sauce

  1. n.
    liquor; any alcoholic beverage. (See also on the sauce.) : Did you bring the sauce? Can't have a good party without lots of sauce.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

sauce 
1350, from O.Fr. sauce, sausse, from noun use of L. salsa, fem. sing. or neut. pl. of salsus "salted," from pp. of Old L. sallere "to salt," from sal (gen. salis) "salt" (see salt). Meaning "something which adds piquancy to words or actions" is recorded from c.1500; sense of "impertinence" first recorded 1835 (see saucy, and cf. sass). Slang meaning "liquor" first attested 1940. Colloquial saucebox "one addicted to making saucy remarks" is from 1588.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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