gravy
Meaning
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- A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
- A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
- Sauce used for pasta.
- Curry sauce.
- (informal) Unearned gain; extra benefit.
Synonyms
pan gravy
manna from heaven
bunce
meat broth
meat extract
spunk
water of life
goose grease
esp. chicken broth
spuff
melted butter
blood gravy
hot fish yoghurt
whore's milk
nut custard
Zinzanbrook
joombye
tatty water
French-fried ice-cream
tail-juice
Aphrodite's Evostick
population paste
father-stuff
Valentines Day porridge
pugwash
love butter
banana yoghurt
Cupid's toothpaste
liquid hairdressing
manfat
man cake batter
Gloy
man-fat
tadpole yoghurt
prick-juice
spunck
doll spit
love nectar
man oil
white blow
gonad glue
man mayonnaise
cock porridge
herbalz
baby juice
hocky
white wee-wee
jessom
spla water
manmuck
hot juice
gentleman's relish
hot milk
jizzle
meat soup
little tadpoles
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɡɹeɪvi/
Etymology
From Middle English gravey, greavie, gravy; probably from greaves, graves (“the sediment of melted tallow”), or from Old French grave, a claimed misspelling of grané (“stew, spice”), from grain (“spice”). Sense of "pasta sauce" apparently seems to be from Italian dialect, especially Calabrian, differentiating tomato puree (salsa (“sauce”)) from cooked tomato sauce (sugo).
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