ADJ
thick, thin | creamy | piquant, rich, spicy, tangy | delicate | smooth | lumpy | barbecue, chilli, soy, sweet and sour, Tabasco, tomato, white | etc. | pasta
VERB + SAUCE
make | thicken | reduce | pour on/over sth, spoon on/over sth
SAUCE + VERB
thicken
SAUCE + NOUN
bottle
PREP
in ~ | with ~
noun
A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
apple sauce; mint sauce
[Prince Paul.] […] But, believe me, you are wrong to run down cookery. For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce. I have never had time enough to think seriously about it, but I feel it is in me, I feel it is in me.
Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in
[meat] pie and [tomato] sauce
Alcohol, booze.
Maybe you should lay off the sauce.
[…] 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 didn't come up for days.
Vitality; capability or talent.
It's over for that guy. He lost the sauce.
Anabolic steroids.
verb
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.
noun
Alternative form of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material.
Being hungry makes one less concerned about the taste of one's food.
His bread and cheese were somewhat dry, to be sure; his ale had become flat, and considerably warmer than was desirable; but hunger is a good sauce, and thirst is not particular.
Being hungry makes one less concerned about the taste of one's food.
If something is acceptable for one person, it is acceptable for another (often of the opposite gender).
[…] sawce which is good for the Goose, I hope will be good for the Gander […]
Synonym of what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
An alluring taste or smell in a food.
apple sauce; mint sauce
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WiktionaryEarth, yield me roots; / Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate / With thy most operant poison!
WiktionaryMeales, uſually ſavvced vvith a healthfull hunger, vvherein no incocted Crudities oppreſſe Nature, and cheriſh diſeaſe: […]
WiktionaryThen fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.
Wiktionaryi Register
In some senses, sauce is marked as slang, UK, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.