sauce

[ saws ]

/ sɔs /

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noun

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.

verb (used with object), sauced, sauc·ing.

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.

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Origin of sauce

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English, from Middle French, from Late Latin salsa, noun use of feminine of Latin salsus “salted,” past participle of sallere “to salt,” derivative of sāl “salt”; see also salt¹

OTHER WORDS FROM sauce

sauceless, adjectiveo·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

satyriasis, Satyricon, satyrid, satyromaniac, satyr play, sauce, sauce américaine, sauce Bercy, sauceboat, saucebox, sauced

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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|Eater
We 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|Fortune
After all, without that secret sauce, an outright buy becomes a lot less desirable.
Will Oracle’s reported TikTok deal satisfy Trump?|David Meyer|September 14, 2020|Fortune
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 Science

From 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|DAILY BEAST
Combine 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|DAILY BEAST
Continue to cook until the sauce has reduced by three quarters.
Make Carla Hall’s Roasted Pork Loin With Cranberries|Carla Hall|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Finish 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|DAILY BEAST
The future congressman also had some spaghetti but no sauce.
Kerry Bentivolio: The Congressman Who Believes in Santa Claus|Ben Jacobs|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Marriage is like Mayonnaise sauce, either a great success or an absolute and entire failure.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
It 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 Wills
Mac took that pretty hard, and came mighty near making the major eat his words with gunpowder sauce on the side.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
I 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|Various
From 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

sauce

/ (sɔːs) /

noun

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

verb (tr)

to prepare (food) with sauce

to add zest to

to make agreeable or less severe

informal to be saucy to

Derived forms of sauce

sauceless, adjective

Word Origin for sauce

C14: via Old French from Latin salsus salted, from salīre to sprinkle with salt, from sal salt

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Idioms and Phrases with sauce

sauce

In addition to the idiom beginning with sauce

sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, what's

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hit the bottle (sauce)

sauce

noun

verb (used with object), sauced, sauc·ing.

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British Dictionary definitions for sauce

noun

verb (tr)

Derived forms of sauce

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