sauce

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
2. (Australia, India, New-Zealand, UK, countable, uncountable) Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in
3. (countable, dated, slang, uncountable) Alcohol, booze.
4. (countable, slang, uncountable) Vitality; capability or talent.
5. (countable, uncountable) Anabolic steroids.
6. (countable, uncountable) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
7. (countable, dated, uncountable) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
8. (US, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable) Vegetables.
9. (UK, US, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable) 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. (colloquial) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
5. (slang) To send or hand over.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɔːs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: sauce

In summary

PIE word
*séh₂ls
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 (“I 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

gravy

broth

condiment

soup

🍲

dressing

seasoning

cook

🧑‍🍳

relish

soy sauce

stock

oil palm

meat sauce

sesame sauce

fish sauce

insolence

topping

peanut sauce

okra sauce

spice

season

paste

pertness

precocity

salsa

sap

sauciness

section

tartar

thick soup

Worcestershire

flavoing

ganishing

narsharab

amaranth

skordalia

appetizer

audacity

boldness

catsup

cheek

chutney

curry

🍛

dip

effrontery

etc.

flavor

flavoring

fluid

forwardness

garlic

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