Sauce Definition
sôs
sauced, sauces, saucing
noun
A liquid or soft mixture served with food to add flavor or enhance its general appeal.
Webster's New World
A flavored syrup used as a topping, as on ice cream.
Webster's New World
Stewed or preserved fruit.
Webster's New World
Something that adds interest, zest, or flavor.
Webster's New World
Impertinence; impudence.
Webster's New World
verb
To flavor or season with a sauce.
Webster's New World
To give flavor or relish to.
Webster's New World
To add piquancy or zest to.
American Heritage
To be impudent or impertinent to.
Webster's New World
suffix
(slang) Used to add emphasis to adjectives, especially those that relate to cool- or uncoolness.
Origin of Sauce
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Middle English from Old French from Vulgar Latin salsa from Latin feminine of salsus past participle of sallere to salt sal- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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