Gravy
['greɪvɪ] or ['ɡrevi]
Definition
(noun.) the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added.
(noun.) a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats.
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Definition
(n.) The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.
(n.) Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc.
Editor: Timmy
Definition
n. the juices from meat while cooking.—n. Grav′y-boat a vessel for gravy or sauce.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of eating gravy, portends failing health and disappointing business.
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Examples
- Joe gave me some more gravy. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Joe offered me more gravy, which I was afraid to take. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The fat youth gave a semi-cannibalic leer at Mr. Weller, as he thought of the roast legs and gravy. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Now you and I, Moore--there's a fine brown one for you, and full of gravy--you and I will have no gray mares in our stables when we marry. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But he always aided and comforted me when he could, in some way of his own, and he always did so at dinner-time by giving me gravy, if there were any. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- There is also a specimen of gravy soup made in October last, and some vermicelli soup made about three weeks ago. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- He shaded the dinner, cooled the wines, chilled the gravy, and blighted the vegetables. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Sit down, gentlemen, and fall to, with a good hearty appetite; the fat, the lean, the gravy, the horse-radish as you like it--don't spare it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There being plenty of gravy to-day, Joe spooned into my plate, at this point, about half a pint. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In the matter of gravy he is adamant. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- All of it,' he said and cut himself a big piece of bread with his knife and commenced to mop up gravy with it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He finished his meat and wiped up the gravy with a piece of bread. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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