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sauce
(sôs)
noun
- a liquid or soft mixture served with food to add flavor or enhance its general appeal
- a flavored syrup used as a topping, as on ice cream
- ☆ stewed or preserved fruit
- something that adds interest, zest, or flavor
- Dialectal garden vegetables eaten as a side dish
- Informal impertinence; impudence
- ☆ Slang alcoholic liquor: usually with the
Origin: ME < OFr sause, saulse < L salsa, salted food < pl. of salsus, pp. of salire, to salt < sal, salt
See sauce in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- A flavorful seasoning or relish served as an accompaniment to food, especially a liquid dressing or topping for food.
- Stewed fruit, usually served with other foods.
- Something that adds zest, flavor, or piquancy.
- Informal Impudent speech or behavior; impertinence or sauciness.
- Slang Alcoholic liquor.
- To season or flavor with sauce.
- To add piquancy or zest to.
- Informal To be impertinent or impudent to.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English
Origin: , from Old French
Origin: , from Vulgar Latin *salsa
Origin: , from Latin
Origin: , feminine of salsus, past participle of sallere, to salt; see sal- in Indo-European roots
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