sauce UK /sɔːs/US /sɒs/noun 9verb 5forms 3phrases 2 noun9 •a runny or creamy food made to go on top of a dish or next to it, adding to its taste •(UK, Australia) Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in •(slang) Alcohol, booze.Maybe you should lay off the sauce. •(slang) Vitality; capability or talent.It's over for that guy. He lost the sauce. •Anabolic steroids. •(old-fashioned) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.‘Well, you know what Matchett’s like! Just about bring herself to talk to me because I’m housemaid, but if the gardener’s boy so much as looks at ’er it’s sauce,’ said Sarah. — 1967 •A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump. •(slang, no longer used) Vegetables.I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse [...] — 1833 •(dialect, no longer used) Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers […] they dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt. — 1705 verb5 •To add sauce to; to season. •(informal) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.I'll sauce her with bitter words. — 1598 •(slang) To send or hand over. •To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.Earth, yield me roots; / Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate / With thy most operant poison! — 1605 •To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings. — 1587 formssauced · saucing · sauces Phrases with sauce hunger sauceAn alluring taste or smell in a food. sauce upTo add sauce to; to serve sauce onto.
