Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Apples stewed to a pulp, and sometimes sweetened and spiced.
- n. Slang Nonsense; foolishness.
Wiktionary
- n. US Apple sauce.
- n. slang, US, dated, 1920s Nonsense, balderdash, bunk, piffle.
- interj. slang, US, dated nonsense.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. [U. S.] stewed apples.
- n. puree of stewed apples usually sweetened and spiced.
- n. nonsensical talk or writing.
WordNet 3.0
- n. puree of stewed apples usually sweetened and spiced
- n. puree of stewed apples usually sweetened and spiced
- n. nonsensical talk or writing
Etymologies
- apple + sauce (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If you know what my diet's like these days, you're probably wondering what I would do with most of this stuff ... everything but the applesauce is a no-no to this ol 'body of mine!”
“I'd totally forgotten about red hots in applesauce!”
“The applesauce is the kind I always buy - and I'm glad they sent me the unsweetened kind too since I find any sweetened applesauce TOO sweet (not to mention leftovers are great in baking!).”
“The applesauce is used as the main liquid in the recipe, where other cakes might use milk or sour cream, and it works out beautifully.”
“For this panha, I would make plain applesauce without any added spices.”
“I chose to live in perpetual fear that she would choke on whatever food from my plate she was eating, but it was better than getting yelled at for suggesting applesauce is our friend or having to spend even more time being a human cow.”
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“Update on my kitchen research: applesauce is not an ingredient of the original guerilla, but my kids don't seem to care.”
“It's a simple recipe for a delightful pancake-like dish doused in applesauce and powdered sugar, but mine never tastes quite right.”
“The sweet potato replaces fat in the way applesauce is so often called upon to do in low-fat baking.”
“i felt awful today, and slept most of the day. not sure if it made me feel better or worse. anyway, that applesauce is making me want some REALLY bad right now. too bad we had to throw ours out because our fridge broke! anyway, good luck on all your classes and interview this week!!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘applesauce’.
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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I'm in the Principal's Office. Help!
I need short, watered-down minced oaths, insults, etc for my comic strip -- words that won't get me sent to the principal's office. Examples: asshattery (basshattery?), Holy Crap (Holy Carp?)... Wo...
gandhi's swimfins!, charging baby tap..., great gobs of gop..., all my fecal memo..., you blunted artic..., kiss my dingleber..., flush off, unroll my toilet ..., banana straightener, fly attractor, mozartsacher, single-row spread... and 28 more...
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Jazz Era
Swingin' and boppin' slang-a-lang.
mooche, moocher, kick the gong around, applesauce, the berries, hooch, juice joint, the john, rummy, screaming meemies, daddy, cokey and 66 more...
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Childhood
Hula-Hoop, fairies, twirl, twinkle, glitter, candyland, firefly, June bug, wonderland, Alice-in-Wonderland, bedtime stories, spelling bee and 27 more...
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hot and cold
you know that kat..., well that perfect..., its not like were..., first hes just a ..., then we end up ha..., and we slowly bec..., then out of no wh..., and i mean ive ha..., so i want to, but he has a girl..., then next thing y..., and hates and hat... and 7 more...
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words my 19-month-old daughter says
We'll skip people's names.
basketball, light, railroad, mommy, daddy, up, hand, gate, walk, kitty, doggie, cat and 145 more...
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Words that are fun to say
stipple, carbuncle, dongle, exemplar, misbegotten, gigolo, salubrious, jupiter, propinquity, piglet, tobogganing, supercilious and 309 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1707 more...
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Olde Fashyned Slang
word, cracking, blotto, ankle, dewdropper, applesauce, bee's knees, bird, breezer, bubs, bum's rush, cake-eater and 36 more...
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compounds
blatherskite, buckskin, fishmonger, hoarfrost, applesauce, moonshine, fiddlehead, snickerdoodle, lodestar, lifeblood, brainchild, starry-eyed and 17 more...
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jamieb's Words
obsequious, whimsical, flagella, matrix, happy, pineapple, joy, ambulophobia, lysozome, time, yawn, fracture and 111 more...
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Word Pairs
pair of words used together always
road hog, cozy up, get stoned, cropping up, snowed under, cap-a-pie, lock-step, wet blanket, underdog, gatecrasher, guinea pig, wallflower and 9 more...
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Hogwash!
nonsense, tripe, twaddle, bullshit, poppycock, palaver, balderdash, baloney, gobbledygook, bunk, claptrap, hooey and 88 more...
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Time to Make the Donuts
What makes a donut? Deep-fried, sweetish dough. Hole not required.
donut, doughnut, cruller, fritter, Boston cream, Bavarian cream, powdered donut, jelly doughnut, glazed doughnut, donut hole, olicook, bear claw and 39 more...
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experiences (culinary)
turducken, mimosa, spanakopita, calamari, bolognese, kugel, tofu, enchilada, muenster, ricotta, hummus, guacamole and 2 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for applesauce.

minouchette flattery or bunk Oct 8, 2010
chained_bear Extensive discussion on criss-cross applesauce. Oct 3, 2008
cosmican Nonsensical talk or writing
Ex: Politics is applesauce Nov 19, 2007
mshalston Expletive, usage: "Aw, applesauce!" Feb 2, 2007