sauce

• sawce (obsolete)

From Middle English sauce[1], from Old French sauce, sause, sausse, salse, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), past participle of saliō (“I salt”), from sal[2]. Doublet of salsa.

• (US) IPA^(key): /sɔs/, /sɑs/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɔːs/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːs, -ɑːs (depending on dialect)
• Homophone: source (in some non-rhotic accents)

sauce (countable and uncountable, plural sauces)

1. A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
   • 2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better‎, Plum, →ISBN, page 192:

     You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.

   apple sauce; mint sauce

2. (Britain, Australia, India) Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:

   [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce

3. (slang, usually “the”) Alcohol, booze.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:

     [...] she was thinking of her first husband, who was a heel to end all heels and a constant pain in the neck to her till one night he most fortunately walked into the River Thames while under the influence of the sauce and didn't come up for days.

   Maybe you should lay off the sauce.

4. (bodybuilding) Anabolic steroids.
5. (art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
6. (Internet slang) Alternative form of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material.
7. (dated) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
   • 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 28:

     ‘I’ll have none of your sauce, young Jessamy. Just because you’ve been took up by the family you’ve no call to give yourself airs. You’re only the housekeeper’s niece, and cook-housekeeper at that, and don’t you forget it. You know full well I’m parlour maid, Matchett to the gentry, Miss Matchett to you – you little —!’ Jessamy broke in anxiously. ‘But I didn’t mean it for sauce, really I didn’t:’

   • 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 39:

     ‘Well, you know what Matchett’s like! Just about bring herself to talk to me because I’m housemaid, but if the gardener’s boy so much as looks at ’er it’s sauce,’ said Sarah.

8. (US, obsolete slang, 1800s) Vegetables.
   • 1833, John Neal, The Down-Easters, Volume 1:

     I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse … .

   • 1882, George W. Peck, “Unscrewing the Top of a Fruit Jar”, in Peck's Sunshine‎:

     and all would be well only for a remark of a little boy who, when asked if he will have some more of the sauce, says he "don't want no strawberries pickled in kerosene."

9. (obsolete, Britain, US, dialectal) Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
   • Beverly

     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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• sowl

sauce (third-person singular simple present sauces, present participle saucing, simple past and past participle sauced)

1. To add sauce to; to season.
2. To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.
   • Shakespeare

     Earth, yield me roots; / Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate / With thy most operant poison!

3. To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
   • Sir Philip Sidney

     Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.

4. (colloquial) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
   • Shakespeare

     I'll sauce her with bitter words.

• sauce up

Category:en:Sauces

• 'cause, cause

From Old French sauce, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, nominal use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), perfect participle of saliō (“I salt”), from sāl.

• IPA^(key): /sos/

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sauce f (plural sauces)

1. sauce

• “sauce” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• cause, causé, sceau

From Old French sauce, from Vulgar Latin *salsa.

• sause, sawce, sawse, salse, saus, saws

• IPA^(key): /ˈsau̯s(ə)/

sauce (plural sauces)

1. A sauce or gravy; a liquid condiment.
2. A solution or broth used for pickling or preserving.
3. A liquid medicine; sauce as a pharmaceutical.

• saucen
• saucer
• saucerie
• sausfleme

• English: sauce
• Scots: sauce

• “sauce (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-08.

From Old French saussier.

sauce

1. Alternative form of saucen

From Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), from saliō.

• IPA^(key): /sawt.sə/

sauce f (oblique plural sauces, nominative singular sauce, nominative plural sauces)

1. sauce (condiment)

• English: sauce
• French: sauce

From Latin salix, salicem.

sauce m (oblique plural sauces, nominative singular sauces, nominative plural sauce)

1. willow (tree)

From Old Spanish salze, from Latin salicem (compare Catalan salze, Italian salice, Romanian salcie), singular accusative of salix (“willow”), from Proto-Indo-European *saləḱ-, *salək- (“willow”).

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /ˈsau.θe/
• (Others) IPA^(key): /ˈsau.se/

sauce m (plural sauces)

1. willow

• Sauce is a false friend, and does not mean the same as the English word sauce. Spanish equivalents are shown above, in the "Translations" section of the English entry sauce.

• salce

• sauzal m
• Saucedo

• salicílico

• cause, causé