gravy

Meaning

Noun

• A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
• Sauce used for pasta.
• Curry sauce.
• Unearned gain.
• Extra benefit.

Origin

• From Middle English gravey, greavie, gravy; probably from greaves, graves, from Old French grave, apparently a misspelling of grané, from grain.