sauce
sauce Lexical Profile
sauce Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A thick liquid served with food, usually savory dishes, to add moistness and flavor.
"The chef prepared a rich tomato sauce to pour over the fresh pasta."
Impertinent, disrespectful, or insolent behavior and speech.
"I will not tolerate any more of your sauce, young man!"
Alcoholic liquor, especially when consumed habitually.
"He has been back on the sauce ever since he lost his job."
• verb
To add a liquid flavoring or condiment to a dish.
"The culinary student was instructed to carefully sauce the roasted chicken before serving."
To speak disrespectfully, insolently, or impudently to someone.
"The teenager was grounded for saucing her mother during an argument."
• Rhymes for sauce
Word Origin & Etymology
From Old French 'sauce', derived from Latin 'salsa' meaning 'salted things', the feminine form of 'salsus' (salted), which comes from 'sal' (salt).
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