sauce
noun
- liquid, creaming or semi-solid food served on or used in preparing other foods
verb
- to cover or serve with sauce
- to be sassy; be rude or impudent to
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /sɔːs/ / /soːs/ / /sɔs/
name
- Acronym of Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions.
noun
- Alternative form of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material.
verb
Etymology: PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English sauce, from Old French sause, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), past participle of saliō (“to salt”), from sal. Doublet of salsa. For the meaning development compare Ancient Greek ἥδυσμα (hḗdusma) ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (whence also English sweet).
- To add sauce to; to season.
- 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!”
“Meales, uſually ſavvced vvith a healthfull hunger, vvherein no incocted Crudities oppreſſe Nature, and cheriſh diſeaſe: […]”
- 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.”
- To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
“I'll sauce her with bitter words.”
“"A bit of real starvin' would do them no 'arm, and I would 'ave less sauce." "What, has Willie sauced you?" "Yes, when 'e woke up." […] "Wot did he say?" "Cursed me good and proper, 'e did."”
- To send or hand over.