gravy

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable, usually) A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
2. (Southern-US, countable, uncountable, usually) A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
3. (uncountable, usually) Sauce used for pasta.
4. (India, Singapore, uncountable, usually) Curry sauce.
5. (informal, uncountable, usually) Unearned gain; extra benefit.

Verb

To make gravy.

Synonyms

sauce

soup

🍲

juice

broth

dressing

pan gravy

gold rush

bonanza

fat

manna from heaven

boom

💥

sap

fluid

oil

godsend

petrol

windfall

bunce

curd

cumin

catsup

cum

mess

meat broth

freak

frig

frock

fuck

👉👌

futz

gippo

frame

cream

buttermilk

flip

flame

consomme

lather

jizz

fetch

condiment

jism

liquor

load

lot

malt

mayonnaise

jelly

meat extract

face cream

hornbeam

Translations

sauce

salsa

salsa

jus

saus

sugo

Soße

sop

Bratensoße

Sauce

jus

jugo

salsa

Saft

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɡɹeɪvi/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: gravey

In summary

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).