sarse

English

Etymology 1

Noun

sarse (plural sarses)

1. Alternative form of searce

Verb

sarse (third-person singular simple present sarses, present participle sarsing, simple past and past participle sarsed)

1. Alternative form of searce

Etymology 2

Noun

sarse (countable and uncountable, plural sarses)

1. Pronunciation spelling of sauce.
   • 1833, John Neal, The Down-Easters, Volume 1:

     I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse … .

   • 1870, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Story of a Bad Boy:

     "I don't want any of your sarse," said the boy, scowling.

Verb

sarse (third-person singular simple present sarses, present participle sarsing, simple past and past participle sarsed)

1. Pronunciation spelling of sauce.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:

     Well, that ‘ud be imposing, too, on Tellson’s. For you cannot sarse the goose and not the gander.

Anagrams

• Rases, SASER, Sears, arses, rases, rasse, sears

Middle English

Alternative forms

• saarce, scarce, sarce, sarche, sars, sarss

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Anglo-Norman cerche, *cerce, from Late Latin *circa; see searce for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsars(ə)/

Noun

sarse

1. sieve, searce

Derived terms

• sarsen

Descendants

• English: searce, sarse
• Scots: search

References

• “sārce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.