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tomato-saucy

tomato-saucy adjective: with tomato sauce.

Adjective

tomato-saucy (comparative more tomato-saucy, superlative most tomato-saucy)

  1. With tomato sauce.
    • Up rises that sweet and tantalizing fragrance—the hot, spicy aroma of Heinz baked beans—slowly browned in heat flooded ovens. Flavor baked into them—flavor baked through and through them—from tender, golden skin to juicy, tomato-saucy center.1928 March, Ladies’ Home Journal, volume XLV, number 3, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, page 55
    • Our Franks in Blankets—an outdoor treat loaded with small-fry appeal—owe their unusual zest to pickle-sweet, tomato-saucy Heinz Hamburger Relish . . .1960 June, “3 easy new ideas to make cook-outs more fun”, in Farm Journal, volume LXXXIV, number 6, Philadelphia, Pa.: Farm Journal Inc., page 66, column 1
  2. Resembling or characteristic of tomato sauce.
    • Here’s tomato-saucy flavor kids can’t resist!1957 August 22, “Van Camp’s Beans with Pork”, in The Windsor Daily Star, volume 78, number 146, Windsor, Ont., page 7
    • Mrs. Vanucci even kissed me and hugged me close to her ample, warm, tomato-saucy bosom.1998, Patricia Johnson Eilola, A Finntown of the Heart, St. Cloud, Minn.: North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc., →ISBN, page 42

Examples of tomato-saucy in a sentence

  • Cheese-filled battered eggplant rolls with a tomato-saucy flair.1980, “[Vegetable Dishes and Casseroles] Eggplant Italiano”, in Yankee Church Supper Cookbook, Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale Press, published 1991...
  • Max: I ordered a triple decker sandwich of cold cuts, not this tomato-saucy concoction!1990, Thomas L[ee] Veenendall, Marjorie C. Feinstein, Let’s Talk About Relationships: Cases in Study, Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland...
  • LeMat grinned: a rather disgusting cheesy-and-tomato-saucy sight.1995, Bruce Bethke, Headcrash, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, page 170:
  • She grinned as Linda slapped an arm around my shoulders and a tomato-saucy chip into my mouth.2006, Adrian Hyland, Moonlight Downs, New York, N.Y.: Soho Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 87:

Forms of tomato-saucy

comparativemore tomato-saucy
superlativemost tomato-saucy
alternative formtomato sauce-y
alternative formtomato saucey
alternative formtomato-saucey
alternative formtomato saucy

Origin of tomato-saucy

From tomato sauce + -y.

Questions about tomato-saucy

What does tomato-saucy mean?
Tomato-saucy means with tomato sauce.
How do you use tomato-saucy in a sentence?
Cheese-filled battered eggplant rolls with a tomato-saucy flair.
What part of speech is tomato-saucy?
Tomato-saucy is an adjective.

Words near tomato-saucy in the dictionary

  1. tomato worms
  2. tomato, tomato
  3. tomato-phile
  4. tomato-philes
  5. tomato-saucey
  6. tomato-saucy
  7. tomato-y
  8. tomatoe
  9. tomatoed
  10. tomatoes
  11. tomatoey

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