apple saucey

Adjective

applesaucey (comparative more applesaucey, superlative most applesaucey)

1. Resembling or characteristic of applesauce.
   • I can’t help wishing that my hillside had some evergreens—the graceful hemlock, for instance, mixed with the lacework of the leafless maples and birches, the bolder outlines of the hickories and chestnuts, the brown of the oaks and yellow of the willows—but I can shut my eyes and see them in fancy...1888 February 25, Celia B. Whitehead, “Out-Door Rest for Housekeepers”, in The Woman’s Journal, volume XIX, number 8, Boston, Mass., page 60, column 3
2. With applesauce.
   • An apple sauce-y dessert, that’s a hearty finale for meals of the soup-and-salad (or sandwich) class, is Steamed Apple Dumplings. […] Dumplings, neatly spiced with nutmeg, are dropped into bubbling apple sauce, and steamed until they’re plumpish and feather-light.1942 February 17, Prudence Penny [pseudonym], “Apple Dishes Are Economical”, in San Francisco Examiner, volume CLXXVI, number 48, San Francisco, Calif., page 16