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applesauce

noun

Etymology

From apple + sauce.

  1. derived from salsus
  2. derived from *salsa✻
  3. derived from sause
  4. inherited from sauce
  5. compounded as applesauce — “apple + sauce”

Definitions

  1. Alternative spelling of apple sauce.

    • Because Mother had been so busy making applesauce, dinner was a little late that night.

  2. Nonsense, balderdash, bunk, piffle.

  3. Nonsense!

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Derived

applesauce cake, applesaucey, criss-cross applesauce

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for applesauce. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA