Sauce vs Jam - What's the difference?
sauce | jam |
A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
(UK, Australia) tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:
Alcohol, booze.
*
(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
(obsolete, UK, US, dialect) Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
* Beverly
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
To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
* Sir Philip Sidney
(colloquial) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
* Shakespeare
(slang) An intensifying suffix.
A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts.
(countable) A difficult situation.
* 1975 , (Bob Dylan), (Tangled Up in Blue)
(countable) Blockage, congestion.
An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
(countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
(countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
(countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
(climbing, countable) Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
(UK) luck.
(mining)
To get something stuck in a confined space.
To brusquely force something into a space; cram, squeeze.
To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up"
To block or confuse a broadcast signal.
(baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
(music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
(roller derby) To attempt to score points.
(nautical) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
In lang=en terms the difference between sauce and jam
is that sauce is an intensifying suffix while jam is a kind of frock for children.As a suffix sauce
is an intensifying suffix.sauce
English
Noun
- apple sauce'''; mint '''sauce
- [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce
- Maybe you should lay off the sauce .
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."}}
- 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 sauceVerb
(sauc)- Earth, yield me roots; / Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate / With thy most operant poison!
- Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.
- I'll sauce her with bitter words.
Suffix
(head)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 sauceSee also
* bechamel * catsup * coulis * gravy * ketchup * salsa * soyAnagrams
* English 4chan slang ----jam
English
, a type of jam, spread on a piece of breadEtymology 1
Noun
- I’m in a jam right now. Can you help me out?
- She was married when we first met
- Soon to be divorced
- I helped her out of a jam , I guess
- But I used a little too much force.
- A traffic jam caused us to miss the game's first period.
- a jam of logs in a river
- He's in a jam now, having walked the bases loaded with the cleanup hitter coming to bat.
- Toughie scored four points in that jam .
- I used a whole series of fist and foot jams in that crack.
- He's got more jam than Waitrose.
Synonyms
* (sweet mixture of fruit) conserve, (US) jelly, preserve * See alsoDerived terms
* jamjar * jammy * jam band * jam roly poly * jam sandwich * jam session * jam tart * jam tomorrow * log jam * Murrumbidgee jam * pearl jam * power jam * toe jam * traffic jam * want jam on it * climbing: ** hand jam ** finger jam ** fist jam ** foot jam ** pinkie jam ** ring jam ** thumb-down jamSee also
* jelly * marmaladeVerb
(jamm)- My foot got jammed in a gap between the rocks.
- Her poor little baby toe got jammed in the door.
- I jammed the top knuckle of my ring finger.
- They temporarily stopped the gas tank leak by jamming a piece of taffy into the hole.
- The rush-hour train was jammed with commuters.
- A single accident can jam the roads for hours.
- Jones was jammed by the pitch.
- When he tripped on the step he jammed his toe.
- Toughie jammed four times in the second period.