applesauce

[ ap-uhl-saws ]

noun

1. apples stewed to a soft pulp and sometimes sweetened or spiced with cinnamon.
2. Slang. nonsense; bunk.

Word History and Origins

Origin of applesauce¹

First recorded in 1670–80; apple + sauce

Example Sentences

Good natural sources of pectin you may already have handy include applesauce and mashed bananas—the browner the better.

From Popular-Science

The job of sorting living things into separate tidy categories is simultaneously valuable science … and also kind of a load of pure applesauce.

From FiveThirtyEight

First thing in the morning though, before rubbing the sleep from your eyes or washing any dishes from the night before, pull out the oats, yogurt, applesauce, and nut butters.

From Eater

Instead, I cradled it in my hand and then pinched the edges with my fingertips to keep the applesauce from oozing out of the pastry as I tried to trap it inside its doughy cocoon.

From Washington Post

Palforzia, a treatment that uses a peanut powder mixed with pudding or applesauce to build up tolerance, received FDA approval in January.

From Ozy

Typically, latkes are served with either sour cream or applesauce.

From The Daily Beast

Like most mothers in France, she was well versed in the art of chausson aux pommes, a simple applesauce tart with a pastry crust.

From The Daily Beast

Ferguson has coated the aspirin, his financial tutorial, with applesauce.

From The Daily Beast

She chose mostly fruit, hoping it would be “like eating applesauce all day long.”

From The Daily Beast

Ever since the bygone days of youth, pork has gone hand in hand with applesauce.

From The Daily Beast

We got rid of a lot of old applesauce about restrictions and here you want to tie us up again.

From Project Gutenberg

A brisk cold day might make her feel like having pork chops and hot applesauce for dinner.

From Project Gutenberg

The baked apple should be given without cream, and the applesauce should have very little sugar.

From Project Gutenberg