gravy

Meanings

Plural: gravies

Noun

a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats
the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added
a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.
A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce.
Sauce used for pasta.
Curry sauce.
Unearned gain; extra benefit.

Verb

To make gravy.

Origin / 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).

Synonyms

bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, manna from heaven, pan gravy, windfall

Scrabble Score: 12

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Words With Friends Score: 13

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