Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A flavorful seasoning or relish served as an accompaniment to food, especially a liquid dressing or topping for food.
- noun Stewed fruit, usually served with other foods.
- noun Something that adds zest, flavor, or piquancy.
- noun Informal Impudent speech or behavior; impertinence or sauciness.
- noun Slang Alcoholic liquor.
- transitive verb To season or flavor with sauce.
- transitive verb To add piquancy or zest to.
- transitive verb Informal To be impertinent or impudent to.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A condiment, as salt or mustard; now, usually, an accompaniment to food, usually liquid or soft, and highly seasoned or flavored, eaten as a relish, an appetizer, or a digestive: as, mint-sauce; white sauce; lobster-sauce; sauce piquante.
- noun Hence, specifically Garden vegetables or roots eaten with flesh-meat: also called
garden-sauce . - noun Fruit stewed with sugar; a compote of fruit: as, apple-sauce.
- noun Pertness; insolence; impudence, or pert or insolent language.
- noun The soft green or yellowish substance of a lobster. See
tomalley . - noun A mixture of flavoring ingredients used in the preparation of tobacco and snuff.
- To add a sauce or relish to; season; flavor.
- To gratify; tickle (the palate).
- To intermix or accompany with anything that gives piquancy or relish; hence, to make pungent, tart, or sharp.
- To be saucy or pert to; treat saucily, or with impertinence; scold.
- To cut up; carve; prepare for the table.
- To make to pay or suffer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings
- noun Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
- noun U.S. Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish
- noun Low. Sauciness; impertinence.
- noun [Vulgar] to retaliate in the same kind.
- transitive verb To accompany with something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing condiments; to season; to flavor.
- transitive verb rare 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.
- transitive verb To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
- transitive verb Colloq. or Low To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
- noun (Fine Art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
liquid (often thickened)condiment or accompaniment to food - noun
cheek ,impertinence - noun
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anabolic steroids - noun US, slang, 1800s
Vegetables . - noun art A soft
crayon for use instump drawing or in shading with the stump. - noun Internet slang
Source ; a term said when requesting the source of an image. - verb to
add sauce to something - verb to act in a
cheeky manner - preposition slang An
intensifying suffix .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb dress (food) with a relish
- verb add zest or flavor to, make more interesting
- verb behave saucily or impudently towards
- noun flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Boil up a big pot of salted water and have your sauce cooking or reheating if you want sauce**.
Archive 2006-08-01 2006
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Boil up a big pot of salted water and have your sauce cooking or reheating if you want sauce**.
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Fettuccine alfredo is a creamy thick Parmesan sauce tossed with fettucine, delicious. * im 13 years old*** This Video Is for Sam Broman, one of my buddies from school** INGREDIENTS: 6-10 oz of heavy cream Parmesan Fettuccine Noodles 8 TBSP butter (1 stick) onion (optional) garlic (minced) chicken breast asparagus 375 degree oven ** directions for sauce** saute onions and garlic in butter until translucent then add heavy cream boil until so close to overpiling the pot then remove and add parmasan about 4-8 small handfuls and whisking between each return to stovetop turn to medium and add rest of parmasan to DESIRED thickness.
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Fettuccine alfredo is a creamy thick Parmesan sauce tossed with fettucine, delicious. * im 13 years old*** This Video Is for Sam Broman, one of my buddies from school** INGREDIENTS: 6-10 oz of heavy cream Parmesan Fettuccine Noodles 8 TBSP butter (1 stick) onion (optional) garlic (minced) chicken breast asparagus 375 degree oven ** directions for sauce** saute onions and garlic in butter until translucent then add heavy cream boil until so close to overpiling the pot then remove and add parmasan about 4-8 small handfuls and whisking between each return to stovetop turn to medium and add rest of parmasan to DESIRED thickness.
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The sauce pan with the secret dippin 'sauce is set over a very low burner and gets the rest of the Chicken Broth ... reduce by half to 2/3's
Archive 2007-02-11 William "Papa" Meloney 2007
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The sauce pan with the secret dippin 'sauce is set over a very low burner and gets the rest of the Chicken Broth ... reduce by half to 2/3's
Kitchen Church: Long Cooked Country Ribs William "Papa" Meloney 2007
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The word sauce comes from an ancient root word meaning “salt,” which is the original concentrated flavoring, pure mineral crystals from the sea p.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The word sauce comes via Latin from an ancient root word meaning “salt,” the primordial condiment that was prepared by the earth billions of years before early humans learned to enliven their foods with it.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The word sauce comes from an ancient root word meaning “salt,” which is the original concentrated flavoring, pure mineral crystals from the sea p.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The word sauce comes via Latin from an ancient root word meaning “salt,” the primordial condiment that was prepared by the earth billions of years before early humans learned to enliven their foods with it.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Unpronounceable preservatives aside, something else caught my attention—no ketchup. If there’s any prevailing special/secret sauce theory, it’s this: The condiment behind the curtain is little more than Thousand Island dressing doctored-up with an acid like vinegar and spices like cayenne or garlic powder.
What Is Secret Sauce, Anyway? Is It Special Sauce? Emma Laperruque 2018
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“Who was surveyed about this? People who sold businesses and don’t want to honor noncompetes?” asks Wexler, who co-chairs the firm’s trade secrets, computer fraud, and noncompetes practice group. “People who feel they should leave with the secret sauce from a business and use it in a new business without the time and resources committed by a prior employer or business[?]”
Will the FTC's Noncompete Ban Really Create 8,500 New Startups Each Year? 2018
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Many burger joints and fast food places, from Shake Shack to McDonald's and In-N-Out Burger, have a house sauce. However, this special sauce is almost always some variation on the same thing: a pink, creamy sauce that is, in essence, a spin on Thousand Island dressing.
Why Fast Food Special Sauce Is Always The Same Thing - Chowhound Hilary Wheelan Remley 2023
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Every business has IP, and most businesses have trade secrets, i.e., Secret Sauce. It may be customer lists, vendor/supplier lists, COGs information, machine specs, or various other details about how you run your business. As a first step in securing this valuable asset, you must identify the asset.
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Shortly after the Big Mac’s debut, Jack in the Box introduced a new burger with its own secret sauce made from ketchup, mayo, mustard, steak sauce, Worcestershire sauce, and hot sauce.
Why So Many Burger Chains Use Thousand Island Dressing as Their Special Sauce Michele Debczak 2023
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Every business has IP, and most businesses have trade secrets, i.e., Secret Sauce. It may be customer lists, vendor/supplier lists, COGs information, machine specs, or various other details about how you run your business. As a first step in securing this valuable asset, you must identify the asset.
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“Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun!” Get the idea? This 1974 Big Mac advertisement established the term "special sauce"—or so McDonald’s claims. I can’t find any evidence to the contrary.
What Is Secret Sauce, Anyway? Is It Special Sauce? Emma Laperruque 2018
sionnach commented on the word sauce
masculine noun, meaning willow tree
October 12, 2007
bilby commented on the word sauce
What language, sionnach?
November 20, 2008
sionnach commented on the word sauce
Spanish.
A weeping willow is sauce llorón.
November 20, 2008
yarb commented on the word sauce
"Before Pickle could accomplish his escape, he was sauced with the syrup of the dormouse pie, which went to pieces in the general wreck..."
— Smollett, Peregrine Pickle
March 1, 2022