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Sauce

//sɔːs// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Acronym of Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Noun
  1. 1
    A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food. countable, uncountable

    "apple sauce; mint sauce"

  2. 2
    Alternative form of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material. Internet, alt-of, alternative
  3. 3
    flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food wordnet
  4. 4
    Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in Australia, India, New-Zealand, UK, countable, uncountable

    "[meat] pie and [tomato] sauce"

  5. 5
    Alcohol, booze. countable, slang, uncountable

    "Maybe you should lay off the sauce."

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  1. 6
    Vitality; capability or talent. countable, slang, uncountable

    "It's over for that guy. He lost the sauce."

  2. 7
    Anabolic steroids. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump. countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass. countable, dated, uncountable

    ""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."

  5. 10
    Vegetables. US, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable

    "I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse [...]"

  6. 11
    Any garden vegetables eaten with meat. UK, US, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    To add sauce to; to season.
  2. 2
    add zest or flavor to, make more interesting wordnet
  3. 3
    To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.

    "Earth, yield me roots; / Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate / With thy most operant poison!"

  4. 4
    dress (food) with a relish wordnet
  5. 5
    To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.

    "Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings."

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  1. 6
    behave saucily or impudently towards wordnet
  2. 7
    To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to. colloquial

    "I'll sauce her with bitter words."

  3. 8
    To send or hand over. slang

Etymology

Etymology 1

PIE word *séh₂ls 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 (“I 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).

Etymology 2

PIE word *séh₂ls 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 (“I 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).

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