sauage.html - See: HIT THE SAUCE.

sauage.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 any of various liquid or semi-solid preparations taken as a relish with food; the liquid constituent of a dish (mint sauce; tomato sauce; chicken in a lemon sauce).
2 something adding piquancy or excitement.
3 colloq. impudence, impertinence, cheek.
4 US stewed fruit etc. eaten as dessert or used as a garnish.

--v.

tr.
1 colloq. be impudent to; cheek.
2 archaic a season with sauce or condiments. b add excitement to.

sauce-boat a kind of jug or dish used for serving sauces etc. sauce for the goose what is appropriate in one case (by implication appropriate in others).

sauceless adj. [ME f. OF ult. f. L salsus f. salere sals- to salt f. sal salt]

sauage.html - n.
a usu. metal cooking pan, usu. round with a lid and a long handle at the side, used for boiling, stewing, etc., on top of a cooker.

saucepanful n. (pl. -fuls).

sauage.html - n.
1 a shallow circular dish used for standing a cup on and to catch drips.
2 any similar dish used to stand a plant pot etc. on.

saucerful n. (pl. -fuls). saucerless adj. [ME, = condiment-dish, f. OF saussier(e) sauce-boat, prob. f. LL salsarium (as SAUCE)]

sauage.html - adj.
(saucier, sauciest)
1 impudent, cheeky.
2 colloq. smart-looking (a saucy hat).
3 colloq. smutty, suggestive.

saucily adv. sauciness n. [earlier sense 'savoury', f. SAUCE]

sauage.html - n. & adj.
(also Saudi Arabian) --n.

(pl. Saudis)
1 a a native or national of Saudi Arabia. b a person of Saudi descent.
2 a member of the dynasty founded by King Saud.

--adj.

of or relating to Saudi Arabia or the Saudi dynasty. [A. Ibn- Saud, Arab. king d. 1953]