sauce
Meanings
Plural: sauces
Noun
- flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food
- A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
- Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in
- Alcohol, booze.
- Vitality; capability or talent.
- Anabolic steroids.
- A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
- Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
- Vegetables.
- Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
- Alternative form of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material.
Verb
- behave saucily or impudently towards
- dress (food) with a relish
- add zest or flavor to, make more interesting
- "sauce the roast"
- To add sauce to; to season.
- To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.
- To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
- To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
- To send or hand over.
Origin / Etymology
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
adult beverage, alcohol, bevvy, booze, carouse, drink, grog, juice, libation, liquor, lush, nightcap, potation, potent potable, sauce, shot, sowl, strong-water, tiddly, tincture, tipple
Scrabble Score: 7
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