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saucing up

saucing up is the present participle and gerund of sauce up.

Meaning of sauce up

Verb

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

  1. To add sauce to; to serve sauce onto.
  2. (slang) To get drunk.
    • Guess I was sauced up and accidentally sold a few bottles to Julian.
  3. (informal, transitive) To make something more saucy (sexually provocative); to sex up.

Questions about saucing up

What is saucing up the present participle and gerund of?
Saucing up is the present participle and gerund of sauce up.

Words near saucing up in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saucing up (page history and authors); sauce up (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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