SAUCE


Meaning of SAUCE in English

sauce S3 /sɔːs $ sɒːs/ BrE AmE noun

[ Date: 1300-1400 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: Latin salsa , from sallere 'to add salt to' , from sal 'salt' ]

1 . [uncountable and countable] a thick cooked liquid that is served with food to give it a particular taste

tomato/cheese/wine etc sauce

vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce

spaghetti sauces

2 . [uncountable] British English old-fashioned rude remarks made to someone that you should respect:

Less of your sauce, my girl!

3 . what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander used to say that if one person is treated in a particular way, other people should be treated in the same way

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.