SAUCE

sauce

(noun) flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food

sauce

(verb) add zest or flavor to, make more interesting; “sauce the roast”

sauce

(verb) dress (food) with a relish

sauce

(verb) behave saucily or impudently towards

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

sauce (countable and uncountable, plural sauces)

A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.

(UK, Australia, India) Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in

(slang, usually “the”) Alcohol, booze.

(bodybuilding) Anabolic steroids.

(art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

(internet slang) Alternative form of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material.

(dated) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.

(US, obsolete slang, 1800s) Vegetables.

(obsolete, UK, US, dialect) Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.

Synonyms

• sowl

Verb

sauce (third-person singular simple present sauces, present participle saucing, simple past and past participle sauced)

To add sauce to; to season.

To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.

To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.

(colloquial) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.

Anagrams

• 'cause, cause

Source: Wiktionary

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Sauce, n. Etym: [F., fr. OF. sausse, LL. salsa, properly, salt pickle, fr. L. salsus salted, salt, p.p. of salire to salt, fr. sal salt. See Salt, and cf. Saucer, Souse pickle, Souse to plunge.]

1. A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc. "Poignant sauce." Chaucer. High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies. Sir S. Baker.

2. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] Forby. Bartlett. Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers . . . they dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt. Beverly.

3. Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc. [U.S.] "Stewed apple sauce." Mrs. Lincoln (Cook Book).

4. Sauciness; impertinence. [Low.] Haliwell. To serve one the same sauce, to retaliate in the same kind. [Vulgar]

Sauce, v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. saucer.] [imp. & p. p. Sauced (; p. pr. & vb. n. Saucing (.]

1. To accompany with something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing condiments; to season; to flavor.

2. To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate; hence, to cover, mingle, or dress, as if with sauce; to make an application to. [R.] Earth, yield me roots; Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate With thy most operant poison! Shak.

3. To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive. Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings. Sir P. Sidney.

4. To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or sancy to. [Colloq. or Low] I'll sauce her with bitter words. Shak.

Sauce, n. Etym: [F.] (Fine Art)

Definition: A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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