sauce
sauce [sauce sauces sauced saucing] BrE [sɔːs] NAmE [sɔːs] noun
1. countable, uncountable a thick liquid that is eaten with food to add flavour to it
•tomato/cranberry/chilli, etc. sauce
•chicken in a white sauce
•ice cream with a hot fudge sauce
see also ↑soy sauce, ↑tartare sauce, ↑white sauce
2. uncountable (old-fashioned, BrE, informal)talk or behaviour that is annoying or lacking in respect
Syn: ↑cheek
Idiom: ↑what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin salsus ‘salted’, past participle of salere ‘to salt’, from sal ‘salt’. Compare with ↑salad.
Example Bank:
•Pour the sauce over the pasta.
•We had lamb with mint sauce.
•chicken in peanut sauce
•chicken in white wine sauce
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