sauce

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

From Old French sauce, from Vulgar Latin salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus ‘salted’, past participle of sallere (“to salt”), from sal.

[edit] Noun

sauce (countable and uncountable; plural sauces)

  1. A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food
  2. cheek, impertinence
  3. (usually "the") booze, alcohol
    • You've been a bit easy the past couple weeks... Maybe you should lay off the sauce.
    • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XVII:
      [...] she was thinking of her first husband, who was a heel to end all heels and a constant pain in the neck to her till one night he most fortunately walked into the River Thames while under the influence of the sauce and didn't come up for days.
  4. (bodybuilding) anabolic steroids
  5. (US, slang, 1800s) Vegetables.
    • 1833, John Neal, The Down-Easters, Volume 1:
      I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse … .
    • 1882, George W. Peck, “Unscrewing the Top of a Fruit Jar”, in Peck's Sunshine[1]:
      and all would be well only for a remark of a little boy who, when asked if he will have some more of the sauce, says he "don't want no strawberries pickled in kerosene."

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Derived terms

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liquid condiment
cheek
booze
steroids

[edit] Verb

sauce (third-person singular simple present sauces, present participle saucing, simple past and past participle sauced)

  1. to add sauce to something
  2. to act in a cheeky manner

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apply sauce
give cheek

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

From Old French sauce, from Vulgar Latin salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus ‘salted’, past participle of sallere (“to salt”), from sal.

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sauce f. (plural sauces)

  1. sauce

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[edit] Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

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From Latin salice, singular ablative of salix (“willow”).

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sauce m. (plural sauces)

  1. willow

[edit] Usage notes

  • Sauce is a false friend, and does not mean the same as the English word sauce. The Spanish word for sauce is salsa.

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