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
Words Nearby sauce
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How to use sauce in a sentence
The latter was a macrobiotics company established in 1961 that got its start importing products like soy sauce from Japan and that eventually developed brown rice cakes in the 1970s — the prototype for the larger snack trend.
The Rise and Fall of the Rice Cake, America’s One-Time Favorite Health Snack | Brenna Houck | September 17, 2020 | EaterWe have a lab where we have focused on making mostly fermented products ranging from hot sauces to salts to soy sauce and versions of miso.
Momofuku’s David Chang on the big changes the restaurant industry needs to make to survive | Beth Kowitt | September 14, 2020 | FortuneAfter all, without that secret sauce, an outright buy becomes a lot less desirable.
While designed to mist out oils, the dispenser can also be used for many different seasonings, such as vinegars, soy sauce, lime juice and more.
Best oil sprayers and misters for home chefs | PopSci Commerce Team | September 11, 2020 | Popular-ScienceFrom September 8 until October 4, McDonald’s will be serving the Please Millennials and Gen Z, Take Some Interest in Us Meal “Travis Scott Meal,” which consists of a quarter pounder with cheese, bacon and lettuce, a Sprite, and fries with BBQ sauce.
Travis Scott Is the First Celebrity Since Michael Jordan to Get McDonald’s Meal Named After Him | Jaya Saxena | September 4, 2020 | Eater
Serve with the warm sauce and your choice of ice cream, whipped cream, or yogurt.
Make ‘The Chew’s’ Carla Hall’s Sticky Toffee Pudding | Carla Hall | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCombine the beans and onion sauce in a 9x9-inch casserole dish and bake for 20 to 25 minutes.
Make Carla Hall’s Crispy Shallot Green Bean Casserole | Carla Hall | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTContinue to cook until the sauce has reduced by three quarters.
Make Carla Hall’s Roasted Pork Loin With Cranberries | Carla Hall | December 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFinish the sauce by putting the roasting pan on the stovetop over medium-high heat.
Make Carla Hall’s Roasted Pork Loin With Cranberries | Carla Hall | December 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe future congressman also had some spaghetti but no sauce.
Kerry Bentivolio: The Congressman Who Believes in Santa Claus | Ben Jacobs | December 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMarriage is like Mayonnaise sauce, either a great success or an absolute and entire failure.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsIt is to be feared that like the sauce of sauces in the hands of the inexperienced cook, the result is more than doubtful.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsMac took that pretty hard, and came mighty near making the major eat his words with gunpowder sauce on the side.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairI must first make a dish of apple-sauce for the seven and seventy guests who are coming to my wedding-feast.
The Nursery, July 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 1 | VariousFrom the tables outside, one can see into the small kitchen, with its polished copper sauce-pans hanging about the grill.
The Real Latin Quarter | F. Berkeley Smith
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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