sauce

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.

   • apple sauce; mint sauce
2. 2

   Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in

   • [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce
3. 3

   Alcohol, booze.

   • Maybe you should lay off the sauce.
   • I've been pretty much off the sauce during the last week, trying to get Pepper to like me again. (Horace won't drink with me any more.)
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   1. 4

      Vitality

      Vitality; capability or talent.

      • It's over for that guy. He lost the sauce.
   2. 5

      Anabolic steroids.

   3. 6

      A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

   4. 7

      Cheek

      Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.

      • ‘Well, you know what Matchett’s like! Just about bring herself to talk to me because I’m housemaid, but if the gardener’s boy so much as looks at ’er it’s sauce,’ said Sarah.
   5. 8

      Vegetables.

      • I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse [...]
      • [...] and all would be well only for a remark of a little boy who, when asked if he will have some more of the sauce, says he "don't want no strawberries pickled in kerosene."
   6. 9

      Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.

      • Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers […] they dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt.
      • The first night of our expedition, we boiled our meat; and I asked the landlady for a little sauce, she told me to go to the garden and take as much cabbage as I pleased, and that, boiled with the meat, was all we could eat.
   7. 10

      To add sauce to

      To add sauce to; to season.

   8. 11

      To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce

      To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.

      • Earth, yield me roots; / Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate / With thy most operant poison!
      • Meales, uſually ſavvced vvith a healthfull hunger, vvherein no incocted Crudities oppreſſe Nature, and cheriſh diſeaſe: […]
   9. 12

      To make poignant

      To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.

      • Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.
   10. 13

       To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language

       To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.

       • I'll sauce her with bitter words.
       • "A bit of real starvin' would do them no 'arm, and I would 'ave less sauce." "What, has Willie sauced you?" "Yes, when 'e woke up." […] "Wot did he say?" "Cursed me good and proper, 'e did."
   11. 14

       To send or hand over.

   12. 15

       Alternative form of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other…

       Alternative form of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material.

   13. 16

       Acronym of Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions.

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