Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A flavorful seasoning or relish served as an accompaniment to food, especially a liquid dressing or topping for food.
- n. Stewed fruit, usually served with other foods.
- n. Something that adds zest, flavor, or piquancy.
- n. Informal Impudent speech or behavior; impertinence or sauciness.
- n. Slang Alcoholic liquor.
- v. To season or flavor with sauce.
- v. To add piquancy or zest to.
- v. Informal To be impertinent or impudent to.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A condiment, as salt or mustard; now, usually, an accompaniment to food, usually liquid or soft, and highly seasoned or flavored, eaten as a relish, an appetizer, or a digestive: as, mint-sauce; white sauce; lobster-sauce; sauce piquante.
- n. Hence, specifically Garden vegetables or roots eaten with flesh-meat: also called garden-sauce.
- n. Fruit stewed with sugar; a compote of fruit: as, apple-sauce.
- n. Pertness; insolence; impudence, or pert or insolent language.
- n. The soft green or yellowish substance of a lobster. See tomalley.
- n. A mixture of flavoring ingredients used in the preparation of tobacco and snuff.
- To add a sauce or relish to; season; flavor.
- To gratify; tickle (the palate).
- To intermix or accompany with anything that gives piquancy or relish; hence, to make pungent, tart, or sharp.
- To be saucy or pert to; treat saucily, or with impertinence; scold.
- To cut up; carve; prepare for the table.
- To make to pay or suffer.
Wiktionary
- n. A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food
- n. cheek, impertinence
- n. booze, alcohol
- n. anabolic steroids
- n. Vegetables.
- v. to add sauce to something
- v. to act in a cheeky manner
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings
- n. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
- n. Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish
- n. Sauciness; impertinence.
- v. To accompany with something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing condiments; to season; to flavor.
- v. To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate; hence, to cover, mingle, or dress, as if with sauce; to make an application to.
- v. To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
- v. To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
- n. A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
WordNet 3.0
- v. dress (food) with a relish
- v. add zest or flavor to, make more interesting
- v. behave saucily or impudently towards
- n. flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, from Latin, feminine of salsus, past participle of sallere, to salt; see sal- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Boil up a big pot of salted water and have your sauce cooking or reheating if you want sauce**.”
“Fettuccine alfredo is a creamy thick Parmesan sauce tossed with fettucine, delicious. * im 13 years old*** This Video Is for Sam Broman, one of my buddies from school** INGREDIENTS: 6-10 oz of heavy cream Parmesan Fettuccine Noodles 8 TBSP butter (1 stick) onion (optional) garlic (minced) chicken breast asparagus 375 degree oven ** directions for sauce** saute onions and garlic in butter until translucent then add heavy cream boil until so close to overpiling the pot then remove and add parmasan about 4-8 small handfuls and whisking between each return to stovetop turn to medium and add rest of parmasan to DESIRED thickness.”
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“The sauce pan with the secret dippin 'sauce is set over a very low burner and gets the rest of the Chicken Broth ... reduce by half to 2/3's”
“The word sauce comes via Latin from an ancient root word meaning “salt,” the primordial condiment that was prepared by the earth billions of years before early humans learned to enliven their foods with it.”
Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
“The word sauce comes from an ancient root word meaning “salt,” which is the original concentrated flavoring, pure mineral crystals from the sea p.”
Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
“If you think your sauce is a bit flat, a veloute sauce can be kicked up by adding many things.”
“Bring to a boil, turn down the heat, and simmer for 15 – 20 minutes or until the sauce is the thickness you prefer.”
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“• This sauce is also great for cakes, ice-cream and tarts.”
“Sriracha sauce is a red Asian hot sauce, that can be bought at Asian supermarkets and even some regular grocery stores.”
“Finish the Tsigareli: Add the drained, chopped greens to the tomato sauce, and simmer for 10 - 15 minutes or until the sauce is the thickness you desire and no longer watery.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sauce’.
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Sweet tooth fairy dominoes
As originally suggested on sweet tooth fairy domino:
Each person adds one word trying to create a single, potentially infinite sweet tooth fairy (please look it up if you are not familiar wit...banana, boat, house, arrest, warrant, peace, sign, post, box, clever, Hans, device and 115 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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Saucy
See also Hernesheir's Open List: Sauces.
hollandaise, mayonnaise, béarnaise, bolognaise, bordelaise, rouennaise, satay, chilli, béchamel, dijonnaise, hoisin, soy and 60 more...
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word's that gross me out
supple, moist, succulent, word's, caulk, flesh, limpid, endocrine, sauce

sionnach Spanish.
A weeping willow is sauce llorón. Nov 19, 2008
bilby What language, sionnach? Nov 19, 2008
sionnach masculine noun, meaning willow tree Oct 12, 2007