SAUCE
What does "SAUCE" mean?
A liquid or soft dressing served with food to add flavor or moisture.
Meanings
- A flavored liquid or semi-liquid mixture served with or used in cooking food. He simmered the tomato sauce for hours until it turned deep red.
- Impudence or cheek; bold, disrespectful talk. Don't give me any of your sauce, young man. informal
- To add a sauce to, or to make more lively or piquant. She sauced the pasta lightly so the herbs still showed.
Did you know?
- Sauce, salad, salsa, and sausage all spring from the same Latin root 'sal' (salt): each began as something salted, and the shared ancestor is why the four words still rhyme with one another's flavor.
Word origin
From Old French 'sauce', from Latin 'salsa', the feminine of 'salsus' meaning 'salted', from 'sal' (salt) - so a sauce was originally simply a salted thing.
Remember it
SAUCE buries 'AU' in the middle - a little pool of liquid sitting between S and CE.
A little poem
A plain potato, dressed in something red,
remembers it was salt that woke the bread.
couplet
Wordplay
- The waiter said the dish had attitude. I asked if he meant flavor. He said, 'No - I mean it talked back. That's the sauce.'
What it teaches
Salt began it all - the small sharp thing added to the plain is what we end up calling the flavor.
Quick facts
What does SAUCE mean?
A liquid or soft dressing served with food to add flavor or moisture.
Is SAUCE a valid word?
Yes — SAUCE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SAUCE?
SAUCE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does SAUCE come from?
From Old French 'sauce', from Latin 'salsa', the feminine of 'salsus' meaning 'salted', from 'sal' (salt) - so a sauce was originally simply a salted thing.
What can SAUCE teach us?
Salt began it all - the small sharp thing added to the plain is what we end up calling the flavor.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.