sauce

Meanings

Noun

• A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
• Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:
• Alcohol, booze.
• Anabolic steroids.
• A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
• Alternative of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material.
• Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
• Vegetables.
• Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.

Verb

• 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.
• To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.

Related

Similar words

• sowl

Origin

• 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 saliō, from sal. salsa.