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applesauce

applesauce noun: nonsense, balderdash, bunk, piffle. Also the alternative spelling of apple sauce.

Noun

applesauce (countable and uncountable, plural applesauces)

  1. (US, dated, slang) Nonsense, balderdash, bunk, piffle.
    Synonyms:
    codswallop

Interjection

  1. (US, dated, slang) Nonsense!

Also used as

applesauce is also the alternative spelling of apple sauce.

Synonyms of applesauce

All synonyms of applesauce

Forms of applesauce

pluralapplesauces
alternative formapple sauce

Origin of applesauce

From apple + sauce.

Words formed from applesauce

Phrases with applesauce

Questions about applesauce

What does applesauce mean?
Applesauce means nonsense, balderdash, bunk, piffle.
What part of speech is applesauce?
Applesauce can be a noun or an interjection.
What is the plural of applesauce?
The plural of applesauce is applesauces.

Words near applesauce in the dictionary

  1. apples to oranges
  2. apples up
  3. apples with apples
  4. apples-of-Peru
  5. apples-to-oranges
  6. applesauce
  7. applesauce cake
  8. applesauce cakes
  9. applesauce-y
  10. applesauces
  11. applesaucey

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: applesauce (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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