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sawce

sawce is the obsolete spelling of sauce.

Meaning of sauce

Noun

sauce (countable and uncountable, plural sauces)

  1. A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
    • apple sauce; mint sauce
  2. (Australia, India, New Zealand, UK) Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in
    • [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce
  3. (slang, usually “the”) Alcohol, booze.
    • Maybe you should lay off the sauce.
  4. (slang, usually “the”) Vitality; capability or talent.
    • It's over for that guy. He lost the sauce.
    Synonyms:
    juice
  5. Anabolic steroids.
  6. A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

See all 14 meanings of sauce

Forms of sawce

Noun
pluralsawces
Verb
third-person singular presentsawces
present participlesawcing
past participlesawced
pastsawced

Questions about sawce

What is sawce the obsolete spelling of?
Sawce is the obsolete spelling of sauce.

Words near sawce in the dictionary

  1. Sawbridgeworth
  2. sawbuck
  3. sawbucks
  4. sawbwa
  5. sawbwas
  6. sawce
  7. sawces
  8. Sawchuk
  9. Sawchuks
  10. sawcier
  11. sawciest

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