Definition of sauce

"sauce" in the noun sense

1. sauce

flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food

"sauce" in the verb sense

1. sauce

behave saucily or impudently towards

2. sauce

dress (food) with a relish

3. sauce

add zest or flavor to, make more interesting

"sauce the roast"

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Quotations for sauce

Hunger is the best sauce. [ Proverb ]

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. [ Plutarch ]

Sweet meats must have sour sauce. [ Proverb ]

You spoil a good dish with ill sauce. [ Proverb ]

To feed were best at home;
From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony;
Meeting were bare without it. [ William Shakespeare ]

Mustard is good sauce, but mirth is better. [ Proverb ]

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. [ Proverb ]

Rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,
Which gives men stomach to digest his words,
With better appetite. [ William Shakespeare ]

Jests, like sweetmeats, have often sour sauce. [ Proverb ]

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for a gander. [ Tom Brown ]

Make not your sauce before you have caught the fish. [ Proverb ]

Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce. [ William Shakespeare ]

For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar. [ Shakespeare ]

Though the sauce be good, yet you need not forsake the meat for it. [ Proverb ]

The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea. [ Rivarol ]

Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day) in recreation, for sleep itself is recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauces. [ Fuller ]

Poetry is music in words, and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but they have lived and died poor, that made them their meat. [ Fuller ]

The chief pleasure (in eating) does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce by sweating. [ Horace ]

The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce. [ F. Osborn ]

If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, Boy, these are good cigars! [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

sauce in Scrabble®

The word sauce is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters sauce:

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sauce in Words With Friends™

The word sauce is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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Words containing the sequence sauce

Words with sauce in them (1 word)

Words that end with sauce (3 words)

Word Growth involving sauce

Shorter words in sauce

(No shorter words found)

Longer words containing sauce

applesauce

sauced

sauceless

saucemaker saucemakers

saucemaking

saucepan saucepans

sauceplate sauceplates

saucepot saucepots

saucer saucerful saucerfuls

saucer saucerless

saucer saucerlike

saucer saucers

sauces

soysauce