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sauce | boot |

As nouns the difference between sauce and boot

is that sauce is while boot is boat.

sauce

English

Noun

  • A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
  • apple sauce'''; mint '''sauce
  • (UK, Australia) tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:
  • [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce
  • Alcohol, booze.
  • *
  • Maybe you should lay off the sauce .
  • (bodybuilding) Anabolic steroids.
  • (art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
  • (internet slang) used when requesting the source of an image.
  • (dated) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year = 1967 , first = Barbara , last = Sleigh , authorlink = Barbara Sleigh , title = (Jessamy) , edition = 1993 , location = Sevenoaks, Kent , publisher=Bloomsbury , isbn = 0 340 19547 9 , page = 28 , url = , passage = ‘I’ll have none of your sauce', young Jessamy. Just because you’ve been took up by the family you’ve no call to give yourself airs. You’re only the housekeeper’s niece, and cook-housekeeper at that, and don’t you forgrt it. You know full well I’m parlour maid, Matchett to the gentry, ''Miss'' Matchett to you – you little —!’ Jessamy broke in anxiously. ‘But I didn’t mean it for ' sauce , really I didn’t:’ }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year = 1967 , first = Barbara , last = Sleigh , authorlink = Barbara Sleigh , title = (Jessamy) , edition = 1993 , location = Sevenoaks, Kent , publisher=Bloomsbury , isbn = 0 340 19547 9 , page = 39 , url = , passage = ‘Well, you know what Matchett’s like! Just about bring herself to talk to me because I’m housemaid, but if the gardener’s boy so much as looks at ’er it’s sauce ,’ said Sarah. }}
  • Vegetables.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1833 , author=(John Neal) , title=The Down-Easters, Volume 1 , passage=I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse … .}}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1882 , author= , title=Peck's Sunshine , chapter=Unscrewing the Top of a Fruit Jar citation , passage=and all would be well only for a remark of a little boy who, when asked if he will have some more of the sauce , says he "don't want no strawberries pickled in kerosene."}}
  • (obsolete, UK, US, dialect) Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
  • * Beverly
  • Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers they dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt.
    (Forby)
    (Bartlett)

    Derived terms

    * apple sauce, applesauce, apple-sauce * barbecue sauce * * * brown sauce * fair suck of the sauce bottle * fish sauce * hoisin sauce * hollandaise sauce * hot sauce * hunger is a good sauce * hunger is the best sauce * laurier-sauce * marchand de vin sauce * Marie Rose sauce * mint sauce * mother sauce * oyster sauce * pasta sauce * ranchero sauce * saucepan * saucepot * saucy * soy sauce * special sauce * steak sauce * sweet-and-sour sauce * Tabasco sauce * tartare sauce, tartar sauce * tomato sauce * what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander * Worcester sauce * Worcestershire sauce

    Verb

    (sauc)
  • To add sauce to; to season.
  • To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Earth, yield me roots; / Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate / With thy most operant poison!
  • To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
  • Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.
  • (colloquial) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I'll sauce her with bitter words.

    Suffix

    (head)
  • (slang) An intensifying suffix.
  • Derived terms

    * awesome sauce, awesomesauce, awesome-sauce * beatsauce * boss sauce * crazysauce * dopesauce * dumb sauce * gay sauce * fail sauce * lamesauce * scary sauce * sweet sauce * weaksauce * win sauce

    See also

    * bechamel * catsup * coulis * gravy * ketchup * salsa * soy

    Anagrams

    * English 4chan slang ----

    boot

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) boote, .

    Noun

    (wikipedia boot) (en noun)
  • A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
  • A blow with the foot; a kick.
  • (construction) A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.
  • A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
  • (US) A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
  • A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup. A deicing boot.
  • (obsolete) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
  • (archaic) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
  • (Australia, British, NZ, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
  • * 1998 , , A Sight For Sore Eyes , 2010, page 260,
  • He heaved the bag and its contents over the lip of the boot' and on to the flagstones. When it was out, no longer in that ' boot but on the ground, and the bag was still intact, he knew the worst was over.
  • * 2003 , Keith Bluemel, Original Ferrari V-12 1965-1973: The Restorer's Guide , unnumbered page,
  • The body is constructed of welded steel panels, with the bonnet, doors and boot lid in aluminium on steel frames.
  • * 2008 , MB Chattelle, Richmond, London: The Peter Hacket Chronicles , page 104,
  • Peers leant against the outside of the car a lit up her filter tip and watched as Bauer and Putin placed their compact suitcases in the boot' of the BMW and slammed the ' boot lid down.
  • (computing, informal) The act or process of removing somebody from a chat room.
  • (British, slang) unattractive person, ugly woman
  • (firearms) A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.
  • Synonyms
    * (shoe) buskin, mukluk * (blow with foot) kick * (car storage) trunk (US) * (parking enforcement device) wheel clamp * fired, laid off
    Derived terms
    * bet one's boots * boot camp * boot cut * Boot Hill * bootless * bootstrap * car boot, car boot sale, boot sale * chewie on ya boot * Denver boot, aka wheel clamp * get the boot * give the boot * horse boot * army boot * Australian boot * Chelsea boot * chukka boot * combat boot * cowboy boot * football boot * go-go boot * gum boot, gumboot * Hessian boot * hiking boot * hip boot * hobnail boot * jackboot * Jesus boots * jump boot, paratrooper boot * jungle boot * knee high boot * kinky boot * Malay boot * motorcycle boot * riding boot * rigger boot * shake in one's boots * shoot the boots * ski boot * snowboard boot * Spanish boot * steel-toe boot * tabi boot * tanker boot * the boot is on the other foot * thigh boot * thigh-high boot * ugg boot, ug boot * walking boot (aka ankle walker) * Wellington boots * work boot

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To kick.
  • I booted the ball toward my teammate.
  • To put boots on, especially for riding.
  • * Ben Jonson
  • Coated and booted for it.
  • To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
  • (informal) To forcibly eject.
  • We need to boot those troublemakers as soon as possible
  • (slang) To vomit.
  • Sorry, I didn’t mean to boot all over your couch.
  • (computing, informal) To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
  • * 2002 , Dan Verton, The Hacker Diaries - Page 67
  • As an IRC member with operator status, Swallow was able to manage who was allowed to remain in chat sessions and who got booted off the channel.
  • * 2003 , John C. Dvorak, Chris Pirillo, Online! - Page 173
  • Even flagrant violators of the TOS are not booted .
  • * 2002 , Jobe Makar, Macromedia Flash Mx Game Design Demystified - Page 544
  • In Electroserver, the kick command disconnects a user totally from the server and gives him a message about why he was booted .
    Usage notes
    The more common term for “to eject from a chatroom” etc. is kick .
    Synonyms
    * (kick) hoof, kick * (disconnect from online conversation) kick
    Derived terms
    * boot up * boot up the backside, boot up the bum

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) boote, bote, bot, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * bote

    Noun

  • (dated) remedy, amends
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • Thou art boot for many a bruise / And healest many a wound.
  • * Wordsworth
  • next her Son, our soul's best boot
  • (uncountable) profit, plunder
  • (obsolete) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense
  • * Shakespeare
  • I'll give you boot , I'll give you three for one.
  • (obsolete) Profit; gain; advantage; use.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot .
    Derived terms
    * to boot

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to profit, avail, benefit
  • * Hooker
  • What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them?
  • * Byron
  • What subdued / To change like this a mind so far imbued / With scorn of man, it little boots to know.
  • * Southey
  • What boots to us your victories?
  • To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.
  • * Shakespeare
  • And I will boot thee with what gift beside / Thy modesty can beg.

    Etymology 3

    Shortening of (bootstrap).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
  • It took three boot s, but I finally got the application installed.
    Derived terms
    * boot disk * boot loader * boot sector * cold boot * dual boot * hot boot * warm boot

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (computing) To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
  • When arriving at the office, first thing I do is booting my machine.

    Derived terms

    * reboot

    Etymology 4

    From , by shortening

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bootleg recording.