Word.ws English Dictionary

XO sauce

XO sauce noun: a spicy sauce from Hong Kong, made from roughly chopped dried seafood, chili peppers, onions, and garlic.

Noun

XO sauce (uncountable)

  1. A spicy sauce from Hong Kong, made from roughly chopped dried seafood, chili peppers, onions, and garlic.

XO sauce meaning in Malay

XO sauce in Malay

sauce
sos XO

Origin of XO sauce

From the name of fine XO (extra-old) cognac, which (though not an ingredient of the sauce) denotes high quality, prestige, and luxury in Hong Kong.

Questions about XO sauce

What does XO sauce mean?
XO sauce means a spicy sauce from Hong Kong, made from roughly chopped dried seafood, chili peppers, onions, and garlic.
What is XO sauce in Malay?
XO sauce in Malay is sos XO. See XO sauce meaning in Malay.
What part of speech is XO sauce?
XO sauce is a noun.

Words near XO sauce in the dictionary

  1. XNOR gate
  2. XNOR gates
  3. Xnty
  4. Xnty.
  5. xo
  6. XO sauce
  7. xoana
  8. xoanon
  9. Xochapa
  10. Xochicalcan
  11. Xochimilcan

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: XO sauce (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “XO sauce.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/xo_sauce. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.