sauce
English
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɔːs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sɔs/
- (Philippines) IPA(key): /sos/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /sɑs/
Audio (US, cot–caught merger): (file) - (General Australian) IPA(key): /soːs/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Homophone: source (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
- Rhymes: -ɔːs
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English sauce,[1] 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.[2] Doublet of salsa.
Noun
[edit]sauce (countable and uncountable, plural sauces)
- A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
- 2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better[2], Plum, →ISBN, page 192:
- You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
- apple sauce; mint sauce
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, India) Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:
- [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce
- (slang, usually “the”) Alcohol, booze.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage
- Maybe you should lay off the sauce.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- […] she was thinking of her first husband, who was a heel to end all heels and a constant pain in the neck to her till one night he most fortunately walked into the River Thames while under the influence of the sauce and didn't come up for days.
- (slang, usually “the”) Vitality; capability or talent.
- Synonym: juice
- It's over for that guy. He lost the sauce.
- (bodybuilding) Anabolic steroids.
- (art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
- (dated) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
- 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, volume 2, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., published 1968, →ISBN, page 691:
- "See here, Captain!" He planted himself squarely in front of Faramir, his hands on his hips, and a look on his face as if he was addressing a young hobbit who had offered him what he called "sauce" when questioned about visiting the orchard.
- 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 39:
- ‘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.
- (US, obsolete slang, 1800s) Vegetables.
- 1882, George W. Peck, “Unscrewing the Top of a Fruit Jar”, in Peck's Sunshine[3]:
- [...] 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."
- (obsolete, UK, US, dialect) Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
- 1705, Robert Beverley, The History of Virginia:
- 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.
- 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, “Ch. VIII”, in A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier:
- 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.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- admiral sauce
- admiral's sauce
- alec sauce
- allemande sauce
- apple sauce, applesauce, apple-sauce
- aurora sauce
- awesome-sauce
- awesome sauce
- barbecue sauce
- barbeque sauce
- BBQ sauce
- béarnaise sauce
- bearnaise sauce
- béchamel sauce
- Béchamel sauce
- bechamel sauce
- Big Mac sauce
- Bolognese sauce
- Bordelaise sauce
- bread sauce
- brown sauce
- buffalo sauce
- burger sauce
- Café de Paris sauce
- caper sauce
- caper sauce
- charcutière sauce
- cheese sauce
- chili sauce
- chippie sauce
- chippy sauce
- Choron sauce
- cocktail sauce
- Colbert sauce
- comeback sauce
- coronation sauce
- Cumberland sauce
- daughter sauce
- dipping sauce
- duck sauce
- fair shake of the sauce bottle
- fair suck of the sauce bottle
- fair suck of the sauce stick
- fancy sauce
- fish sauce
- Foyot sauce
- fry sauce
- goated with the sauce
- hamburger sauce
- hard sauce
- hoisin sauce
- hollandaise sauce
- horseradish sauce
- hot sauce
- hunger is a good sauce
- hunger is the best sauce
- hunger sauce
- Jezebel sauce
- laurier-sauce
- lobster sauce
- Louis sauce
- Madeira sauce
- magic sauce
- Maltese sauce
- mambo sauce
- marchand de vin sauce
- Marie Rose sauce
- Mary Rose sauce
- meat sauce
- meunière sauce
- mignonette sauce
- mint sauce
- more sauce than meat
- mother sauce
- mumbo sauce
- Nantua sauce
- oyster sauce
- palava sauce
- palaver sauce
- Paloise sauce
- pasta sauce
- pepper sauce
- pizza sauce
- pomodoro sauce
- poor man's sauce
- Portuguese sauce
- poulette sauce
- ranchero sauce
- red sauce
- rooster sauce
- rosé sauce
- salsa sauce
- sass
- sauce-alone
- sauce boat
- sauce crayon
- sauce for the goose
- sauceless
- saucepan
- saucepot
- sauce Robert
- saucy
- secret sauce
- serve someone the same sauce
- serve someone with the same sauce
- Shirley sauce
- soy sauce, soya sauce
- spaghetti sauce
- special sauce
- spiedie sauce
- steak sauce
- sugar-butter sauce
- suprême sauce
- sweet-and-sour sauce
- sweet bean sauce
- Tabasco sauce
- tartare sauce, tartar sauce
- tiger sauce
- tomato sauce
- tonkatsu sauce
- Valois sauce
- vodka sauce
- weak sauce
- what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
- white sauce
- wing sauce
- Worcester sauce
- Worcestershire sauce
- wow-wow sauce
- XO sauce
- yum yum sauce
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Verb
[edit]sauce (third-person singular simple present sauces, present participle saucing, simple past and past participle sauced)
- 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.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- Earth, yield me roots; / Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate / With thy most operant poison!
- 1645, Jos[eph] Hall, “Sect[ion] XII. Consideration of the Benefits of Poverty.”, in The Remedy of Discontentment: Or, A Treatise of Contentation in whatsoever Condition: […], London: […] J. G. for Nath[aniel] Brooks, […], published 1652, →OCLC, page 61:
- Meales, uſually ſavvced vvith a healthfull hunger, vvherein no incocted Crudities oppreſſe Nature, and cheriſh diſeaſe: […]
- To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
- a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
- Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.
- (colloquial) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
- I'll sauce her with bitter words.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- "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."
- (slang) To send or hand over.
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Noun
[edit]sauce (plural sauces)
- (Internet slang) Alternative form of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material.
References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “sauce”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ “Archived copy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2019 April 21 (last accessed), archived from the original on 21 April 2019
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French sause, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, nominal use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), perfect participle of saliō (“to salt”), from sāl.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sauce f (plural sauces)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sauce”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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[edit]Middle English
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Etymology 1
[edit]From Old French sause, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, from Latin salsus (“salted”).
Alternative forms
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[edit]Noun
[edit]sauce (plural sauces)
- A sauce or gravy; a liquid condiment.
- c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 353–354:
- Wo was his cook, but if his ſauce were / Poynaunt and ſhaꝛp, and redy al his geere.
- Woe to his cook, except if his sauce was / sour and sharp, and all his equipment was ready […]
- A solution or broth used for pickling or preserving.
- A liquid medicine; sauce as a pharmaceutical.
Related terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- “sauce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-08.
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]sauce
- Alternative form of saucen
Old French
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[edit]Noun
[edit]sauce oblique singular, m or f (oblique plural sauces, nominative singular sauces, nominative plural sauce)
- Alternative form of sauz
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]sauce oblique singular, f (oblique plural sauces, nominative singular sauce, nominative plural sauces)
- Alternative form of sause
Spanish
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish salze, inherited from Latin salicem (“willow”), from Proto-Indo-European *sl̥H-ik- (“willow”). Doublet of sarga. Compare Catalan salze, Italian salice, Romanian salcie.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈsauθe/ [ˈsau̯.θe]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsause/ [ˈsau̯.se]
- Rhymes: -auθe
- Rhymes: -ause
- Syllabification: sau‧ce
Noun
[edit]sauce m (plural sauces)
Usage notes
[edit]- Sauce is a false friend, and does not mean the same as the English word sauce. The Spanish word for sauce is salsa.
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sauce”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- en:Condiments
- en:Foods
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- enm:Condiments
- enm:Pharmacology
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- es:Trees
- es:Willows and poplars