Sauce
[sɔːs] or [sɔs]
Definition
(noun.) flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food.
(verb.) add zest or flavor to, make more interesting; 'sauce the roast'.
(verb.) dress (food) with a relish.
(verb.) behave saucily or impudently towards.
Checker: Nicole--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc.
(n.) Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
(n.) Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc.
(n.) Sauciness; impertinence.
(v. t.) To accompany with something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing condiments; to season; to flavor.
(v. t.) To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate; hence, to cover, mingle, or dress, as if with sauce; to make an application to.
(v. t.) To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
(v. t.) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
(n.) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Seasoning, relish, condiment, appetizing compound.[2]. [Low.] Impertinence, SAUCINESS.[3]. [Colloquial.] Culinary vegetables.
Inputed by Bertha
Definition
n. a liquid seasoning for food consisting of salt &c.: fruit stewed with sugar: a relish: impudence.—v.t. to put sauce in to relish: to make poignant: to gratify the palate: to treat with bitter or pert language: to make suffer.—ns. Sauce′-alone′ a cruciferous plant with a strong garlic smell Jack-by-the-hedge; Sauce′-boat a vessel with a spout for holding sauce; Sauce′-box an impudent person; Sauce′-cray′on a soft black pastel used for backgrounds; Sauce′pan a pan in which sauce or any small thing is boiled; Sauce′pan-fish the king-crab.—Poor man's sauce hunger; Serve one with the same sauce to requite one injury with another to make to suffer.
Typist: Ora
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.
Checker: Percy
Examples
- It was well cooked, the rabbit meat flaked off the bones, and the sauce was delicious. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I think they must have been taken out at random, for I am sure I tasted aniseed water, anchovy sauce, and salad dressing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Chops and tomato sauce. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Did anybody ever find boiled mutton and caper-sauce growing in a cocoa-nut? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In the course of their correspondence Mr. Sanders had often called her a 'duck,' but never 'chops,' nor yet 'tomato sauce. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Couldn't you find tomato sauce, Barto? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Perhaps if he had been as fond of chops and tomato sauce, he might have called her that, as a term of affection. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It was rabbit cooked with onions and green peppers and there were chick peas in the red wine sauce. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Scanty and insufficient suppers those, and innocent of meat, as of most other sauce to wretched bread. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- And I can hardly be mistaken in saying that sweet sauces are nowhere mentioned in Homer. Plato. The Republic.
- The composition of this sauce is a trade secret, but a variety of similar sauces are found on the market. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- People who are to be comfortable are accustomed to lie on sofas, and dine off tables, and they should have sauces and sweets in the modern style. Plato. The Republic.
- Catchup, sauces, and jellies are now frequently preserved in this way. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It was sauced with a savage appetite purchased by hard riding the day before, and refreshing sleep in a pure atmosphere. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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