sauce /sös/

1. Any dressing poured over food
2. Any (semi-) liquid mixture in which food is cooked and/or served
3. Anything that gives relish, interest or excitement
4. Vegetables eaten with meat (US)
5. Stewed fruit (N American)
6. A solution of salt, etc, used in individual processes
7. A pert or impudent person (obsolete)
8. Pert or impertinent language or behaviour (informal)
9. (with the) alcoholic drink (US inf)

1. To add or give sauce to
2. To make piquant or pleasant
3. To be impertinent to (informal)
4. To rebuke (Shakespeare)
5. To make to pay dear (Shakespeare)
6. To belabour (obsolete)

sauceˈless adjective

saucˈily adverb

saucˈiness noun

saucˈy adjective (saucˈier; saucˈiest)

1. Like or tasting of sauce
2. Pert, forward
3. Piquantly audacious, esp arousing sexual desire
4. (eg of a ship) smart and trim
5. Disdainful
6. Lascivious (Shakespeare)

sauce-aloneˈ noun

The plant garlic mustard

sauce boat noun

A container from which sauce is poured over food

sauceˈbox noun (informal)

An impudent person

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