Antonyms for sauced


Grammar : Adj
Spell : sawst
Phonetic Transcription : sɔst


Definition of sauced

Origin :
  • mid-14c., from Old French sauce, sausse, from Latin salsa "things salted, salt food," noun use of fem. singular or neuter plural of adjective salsus "salted," from past participle of Old Latin sallere "to salt," from sal (genitive salis) "salt" (see salt (n.)).
  • Meaning "something which adds piquancy to words or actions" is recorded from c.1500; sense of "impertinence" first recorded 1835 (see saucy, and cf. sass). Slang meaning "liquor" first attested 1940.
  • As in juicy : adj moist
  • As in plastered : adj drunk
Example sentences :
  • Sadie, having "sauced" her landlady, found it wise to change her quarters.
  • Extract from : « Winnie Childs » by C. N. Williamson
  • You get no common beef at clubs; there is a manzy of different things all sauced up to be unlike themsels.
  • Extract from : « Margaret Ogilvy » by J. M. Barrie
  • It was sauced with a savage appetite purchased by hard riding the day before, and refreshing sleep in a pure atmosphere.
  • Extract from : « The Innocents Abroad » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • In taking the money the clerk had sauced him and he had retaliated to the best of his ability.
  • Extract from : « The Mystery of the Clasped Hands » by Guy Boothby
  • Know that capons or chickens be arrayed after one sauce; the chickens shall be sauced with green sauce or veriuyce.
  • Extract from : « The accomplisht cook » by Robert May
  • He is told to be cautious, and we catch him writing a letter to you, and we foil the attempt, and get sauced at for our pains.
  • Extract from : « Mattie:--A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) » by Frederick William Robinson
  • Let gentle admonicion be oure rodde, and sometyme chydyng also, but sauced wyth mekenes, not bitternes.
  • Extract from : « The Education of Children » by Desiderius Erasmus

Synonyms for sauced

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