Definizione monolingua

sauce

sauce (third-person singular simple present sauces, present participle saucing, simple past and past participle sauced)

1. to add sauce to something
2. to act in a cheeky manner

sauce (countable and uncountable; plural sauces)

1. A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food
2. cheek, impertinence
3. (usually ""the"") booze, alcohol
   • Youve been a bit easy the past couple weeks... Maybe you should lay off the sauce.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XVII:

     [...] she was thinking of her first husband, who was a heel to end all heels and a constant pain in the neck to her till one night he most fortunately walked into the River Thames while under the influence of the sauce and didnt come up for days.

4. (bodybuilding) anabolic steroids
5. (US, slang, 1800s) Vegetables.
   • 1833, John Neal, The Down-Easters, Volume 1:

     I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o garden sarse … .

   • 1882, George W. Peck, “Unscrewing the Top of a Fruit Jar”, in Pecks Sunshine^[1]:

     and all would be well only for a remark of a little boy who, when asked if he will have some more of the sauce, says he ""dont want no strawberries pickled in kerosene.""

Definizione dizionario sauce

	salsa
	liquid condiment
	A liquid food accompanying a dish.

condimento

condire

faccia tosta

guazzetto

impertinenza

intingolo

sugo

Altri significati:

(bodybuilding) anabolic steroids

cheek, impertinence

cheek

to add sauce to something

(US, slang, 1800s) Vegetables.

A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food

booze

to act in a cheeky manner

(usually "the") booze, alcohol