sauce

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. dressing, dip, gravy; compote; fillip, flavor, zest, taste; slang, liquor; informal, insolence.

See food, drinking.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [A condiment]

Syn. appetizer, gravy, seasoning; see flavoring , food .

Varieties of sauce, sense 1, include: barbecue, caper, pesto, béarnaise, picante, remoulade, aioli, béchamel, drawn butter, Colbert, hollandaise, tartar, horseradish, Worcestershire, Spanish, mushroom, mustard, velouté, raisin, madeira, cheese, dill, tomato, wine, soy, duck, chef's special.

2. [Stewed fruit]

Syn. cooked fruit, fruit butter, conserve, preserve.

Varieties of sauce, sense 2, include: apple, gooseberry, blueberry, blackberry, boysenberry, loganberry, raspberry, strawberry, cranberry, orange, pear, peach, plum, cherry, grape, apricot, nectarine, prune.

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

gravy, dressing, relish, condiment, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, Mornay sauce, white sauce, soubise.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) I noun Informal The state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident: assumption, audaciousness, audacity, boldness, brashness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, discourtesy, disrespect, effrontery, face, familiarity, forwardness, gall1, impertinence, impudence, impudency, incivility, insolence, nerve, nerviness, overconfidence, pertness, presumptuousness, pushiness, rudeness, sassiness, sauciness. Informal: brass, crust, uppishness, uppityness. See ATTITUDE, COURTESY. II verb Informal. To utter an impertinent rejoinder: talk back, talk up. Informal: sass. Idiom: give someone lip. See RESIST, WORDS.