sauce

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A thick or liquid mixture served with or on food to add flavour.

   She poured tomato sauce over the pasta.

2. 2
   noun

   Alcoholic drink (informal).

   Maybe you should lay off the sauce for a while.

3. 3
   noun

   Cheeky or rude talk; impertinence (informal).

   Don't give me any sauce, young man!

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).

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