Sauce vs Sawce - What's the difference?
sauce | sawce |
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.
As nouns the difference between sauce and sawce
is that sauce is while sawce is .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.