sauce
any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
stewed fruit, often puréed and served as an accompaniment to meat, dessert, or other food: cranberry sauce.
something that adds piquance or zest.
Informal. sauciness; impertinence; impudence.
Slang.Usually the sauce . hard liquor: He's on the sauce again.
Archaic. garden vegetables eaten with meat.
to dress or prepare with sauce; season: meat well sauced.
to make a sauce of: Tomatoes must be sauced while ripe.
to give piquance or zest to.
to make agreeable or less harsh.
Informal. to speak impertinently or saucily to.
Origin of sauce
1Other words from sauce
- sauceless, adjective
- o·ver·sauce, verb (used with object), o·ver·sauced, o·ver·sauc·ing.
Words that may be confused with sauce
- sauce , source
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How to use sauce in a sentence
Or it may be an excess of curiosity in the dressing, and saucing, and ordering of all.
A Christian Directory (Volume 1 of 4) | Richard BaxterYou're a good fellow, Philip, and I beg your pardon for saucing you.
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British Dictionary definitions for sauce
/ (sɔːs) /
any liquid or semiliquid preparation eaten with food to enhance its flavour
anything that adds piquancy
US and Canadian stewed fruit
US dialect vegetables eaten with meat
informal impudent language or behaviour
to prepare (food) with sauce
to add zest to
to make agreeable or less severe
informal to be saucy to
Origin of sauce
1Derived forms of sauce
- sauceless, adjective
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Other Idioms and Phrases with sauce
In addition to the idiom beginning with sauce
- sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, what's
also see:
- hit the bottle (sauce)
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