sauce
[ saws ]
/ sɔs /
noun
verb (used with object), sauced, sauc·ing.
Words nearby sauce
Origin of sauce
1300–50; Middle English < Middle French < Late Latin salsa, noun use of feminine of Latin salsus salted, past participle of sallere to salt, derivative of sāl salt1
OTHER WORDS FROM sauce
sauce·less, adjectiveo·ver·sauce, verb (used with object), o·ver·sauced, o·ver·sauc·ing.WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH sauce
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British Dictionary definitions for sauce
sauce
/ (sɔːs) /
noun
verb (tr)
Derived forms of sauce
sauceless, adjectiveWord 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
also see:
- hit the bottle (sauce)
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