Sauce Definition & Meaning
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noun
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any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
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stewed fruit, often puréed and served as an accompaniment to meat, dessert, or other food.
cranberry sauce.
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something that adds piquance or zest.
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Informal. sauciness; impertinence; impudence.
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Slang. Usually the sauce hard liquor.
He's on the sauce again.
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Archaic. garden vegetables eaten with meat.
verb (used with object)
sauced, saucing-
to dress or prepare with sauce; season.
meat well sauced.
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to make a sauce of.
Tomatoes must be sauced while ripe.
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to give piquance or zest to.
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to make agreeable or less harsh.
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Informal. to speak impertinently or saucily to.
noun
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any liquid or semiliquid preparation eaten with food to enhance its flavour
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anything that adds piquancy
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stewed fruit
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dialect vegetables eaten with meat
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informal impudent language or behaviour
verb
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to prepare (food) with sauce
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to add zest to
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to make agreeable or less severe
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informal to be saucy to
- hit the bottle (sauce)
More idioms and phrases containing sauce
Other Word Forms
- oversauce verb (used with object)
- sauceless adjective
Etymology
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”; salt 1
Example Sentences
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"It's the crunch, it's the visuals, it's the sauce, it's the different ways you can have it," Till says.
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Belton wrote in a note that for software, it was never the code itself which was the “secret sauce” or “competitive advantage.”
From MarketWatch
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At home, he noticed small things, like her forgetting to add the meat to the spaghetti sauce.
From The Wall Street Journal
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From a gas leak to a hot sauce factory, many cities in the area have dealt with odd, unpleasant odors over the years.
From Los Angeles Times
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Mom had a chicken chunk in her hand, already dipped in sauce, but she set it down.
From Literature
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Related Words
- dressing
- flavoring
- gravy
- relish
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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