-sauce
/-sɔːs/
-sauce suffix: used to add emphasis to adjectives, especially those that relate to cool- or uncoolness.
Suffix
-sauce
- Used to add emphasis to adjectives, especially those that relate to cool- or uncoolness.
- awesome + -sauce → awesomesauce
- weak + -sauce → weaksauce
Origin of -sauce
Probably a back-formation from awesome sauce.
Words formed from -sauce
- awesome sauce
- awesomesauce
- awesome-sauce
- beatsauce
- boss sauce
- dumb sauce
- fail sauce
- gay sauce
- scary sauce
- sweet sauce
- win sauce
Questions about -sauce
- What does -sauce mean?
- -sauce means used to add emphasis to adjectives, especially those that relate to cool- or uncoolness.
- What part of speech is -sauce?
- -sauce is a suffix.
- How do you pronounce -sauce?
- -sauce is pronounced /-sɔːs/.
Words near -sauce in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: -sauce (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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