applesauce
See also: apple-sauce and apple sauce
English
Alternative forms
- apple sauce (UK)
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
applesauce (uncountable)
- (US) Alternative spelling of apple sauce.
- 1955, Beverly Cleary, Beezus and Ramona, page 101:
- Because Mother had been so busy making applesauce, dinner was a little late that night.
- (slang, US, dated, 1920s) Nonsense, balderdash, bunk, piffle.
Synonyms
- (nonsense): codswallop, hooey, malarkey; see also Thesaurus:nonsense
Derived terms
Translations
apple sauce — see apple sauce
nonsense
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Interjection
applesauce!
Synonyms
Translations
nonsense
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