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sauce

UK/sɔːs/ US/soːs/ common slang uk us
noun (1) verb (3)

noun

1.

verb

1.

behave saucy or impudently towards

2.

dress (food) with a relish

3.

add zest or flavor to, make more interesting

  • “sauce the roast”

Origin

PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English sauce, from Old French sause, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), past participle of saliō (“to salt”), from sal. Doublet of salsa. For the meaning development compare Ancient Greek ἥδυσμα (hḗdusma) ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (whence also English sweet).

Phrases

  • awesome sauce
  • fair shake of the sauce bottle
  • fair suck of the sauce bottle
  • fair suck of the sauce stick
  • goated with the sauce
  • hunger is a good sauce
  • hunger is the best sauce
  • hunger sauce
  • sauce up

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