English Explanatory Dictionary

sauce

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
  2. Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in
  3. Alcohol, booze.
  4. Vitality; capability or talent.
  5. Anabolic steroids.
  6. A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
  7. Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
  8. Vegetables.
  9. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
verb
  1. To add sauce to; to season.
  2. To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.
  3. To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
  4. To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
  5. To send or hand over.
noun
  1. Alternative form of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material.
name
  1. Acronym of Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions.

Pronunciation

/sɔːs/ /sɔs/ [sɔə̯s] [sʊə̯s] [soə̯s] /sɑs/ en-us-sauce.ogg /sɒs/ /soːs/ en-au-sauce.ogg /sos/

Word forms

sauce sauces sawce saucing sauced

Etymology

PIE word *sḗh₂l 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 (“to 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).

Synonyms

sowl adult beverage alcohol bevvy booze carouse drink fuddling grog hard drink libation liquor lush nightcap potation potent potable sauce shot strong drink strong water tiddly tincture tipple juice

Related words

hit the sauce lost in the sauce on the sauce sauced sauce parlor sauce parlour

Derived words

awesome-sauce awesome sauce fair shake of the sauce bottle fair suck of the sauce bottle fair suck of the sauce stick goated with the sauce hunger is a good sauce hunger is the best sauce hunger sauce Korean sauce more sauce than meat poor man's sauce sass sauce-alone sauceboat sauce boat saucebox sauce crayon saucedish sauce for the goose sauceless saucelike saucemaker saucemaking sauceman saucepan sauceplate saucepot saucier saucy secret sauce serve someone the same sauce serve someone with the same sauce weaksauce weak sauce what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander oversauce sauce up
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