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saucing

saucing is the present participle and gerund of sauce.

Meaning of sauce

Verb

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

  1. To add sauce to; to season.
  2. 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!c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  3. 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.a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London...
  4. (colloquial) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
    • I'll sauce her with bitter words.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  5. (slang) To send or hand over.

See all 14 meanings of sauce

Noun

saucing (countable and uncountable, plural saucings)

  1. (archaic) Sauce (for food).
    • There was a time when France, in the excess of its saucings and in the glory of its seasonings, used to twit poor England with having a score of religions and only one fish-sauce!1868, The Athenaeum, page 425

Forms of saucing

pluralsaucings

Phrases with saucing

Questions about saucing

What does saucing mean?
Saucing means sauce (for food).
What is saucing the present participle and gerund of?
Saucing is the present participle and gerund of sauce.
What part of speech is saucing?
Saucing is a noun.
What is the plural of saucing?
The plural of saucing is saucings.

Words near saucing in the dictionary

  1. sauciers
  2. sauciest
  3. saucily
  4. sauciness
  5. saucinesses
  6. saucing
  7. saucing up
  8. saucings
  9. saucisse
  10. saucisses
  11. saucisson

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