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sauce
English
Alternative forms
- sawce (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English sauce, from Old French sauce, sause, sausse, salse, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), past participle of sali? (“I salt”), from sal. Doublet of salsa.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s??s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /s?s/, /s?s/
- Rhymes: -??s, -??s (depending on dialect)
- Homophone: source (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
Noun
sauce (countable and uncountable, plural sauces)
- A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
- apple sauce; mint sauce
- (Britain, Australia, India) Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:
- [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce
- (slang, usually “the”) Alcohol, booze.
- Maybe you should lay off the sauce.
- (bodybuilding) Anabolic steroids.
- (art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
- (Internet slang) Alternative form of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material.
- (dated) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
- (US, obsolete slang, 1800s) Vegetables.
- (obsolete, Britain, 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, A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier, Ch. VIII:
- 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.
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- 1705, Robert Beverley, The History of Virginia
Synonyms
- sowl
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
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.
- 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.
- (colloquial) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
Derived terms
- sauce up
Translations
See also
Category:en:Sauces
References
Anagrams
- 'cause, cause
French
Etymology
From Old French sauce, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, nominal use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), perfect participle of sali? (“I salt”), from s?l.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sos/
Noun
sauce f (plural sauces)
- sauce
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “sauce” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- cause, causé, sceau
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French sauce, from Vulgar Latin *salsa.
Alternative forms
- sause, sawce, sawse, salse, saus, saws
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sau?s(?)/
Noun
sauce (plural sauces)
- A sauce or gravy; a liquid condiment.
- A solution or broth used for pickling or preserving.
- A liquid medicine; sauce as a pharmaceutical.
Related terms
- saucen
- saucer
- saucerie
- sausfleme
- vert sauce
Descendants
- English: sauce
- Scots: sauce
References
- “sauce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-08.
Etymology 2
Verb
sauce
- Alternative form of saucen
Old French
Etymology 1
From Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), from sali?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sau?t?s?/
Noun
sauce f (oblique plural sauces, nominative singular sauce, nominative plural sauces)
- sauce (condiment)
Descendants
- English: sauce
- French: sauce
Etymology 2
From Latin salix, salicem.
Noun
sauce m (oblique plural sauces, nominative singular sauces, nominative plural sauce)
- willow (tree)
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish salze, from Latin salix (“willow”) (compare Catalan salze, Italian salice, Romanian salcie), from Proto-Indo-European *sl?H-ik- (“willow”). Doublet of sarga.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /?sau?e/, [?sau?.?e]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /?sause/, [?sau?.se]
Noun
sauce m (plural sauces)
- willow
- Synonym: salce
Usage notes
- 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
- sauzal m
- Saucedo
- sauce llorón
Related terms
- salicílico
Anagrams
- cause, causé, sueca
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dipping
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?p??/
Verb
dipping
- present participle of dip
Hyponyms
- double-dipping
Noun
dipping (plural dippings)
- An act or process of immersing.
- 1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., The first and second volumes of Chronicles, “Henrie the second,” p. 82,[1]
- […] it was ordeined, that children shuld be brought to the church, there to receiue baptisme in faire water, with thrée dippings into the same, in the name of the father, the sonne, and the Holie-ghost […]
- 1753, William Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty, London: for the author, Chapter 13, p. 110,[2]
- By an infinite number of materials, I mean colours and shades of all kinds and degrees; some notion of which variety may be formed by supposing a piece of white silk by several dippings gradually dyed to a black; and carrying it in like manner through the prime tints of yellow, red, and blue; and then again, by making the like progress through all the mixtures that are to be made of these three original colours.
- 1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden, London: Heinemann, Part One, Chapter 3, I, p. 11,
- Baby Adam cried a good deal at the beginning of the wake, for the mourners, not knowing about babies, had neglected to feed him. Cyrus soon solved the problem. He dipped a rag in whisky and gave it to the baby to suck, and after three or four dippings young Adam went to sleep.
- 1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., The first and second volumes of Chronicles, “Henrie the second,” p. 82,[1]
- The act of inclining downward.
- The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.
- The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, especially brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
- (US) The use of dipping tobacco (moist snuff) in the mouth, usually between the lip and gum or cheek and gum in the lower or upper part of the mouth.
- (birdwatching) The act or fact of missing out on seeing a bird.
Translations
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