sauceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /sɔːs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɔs/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /sɑs/
• 韻: -ɔːs
• Homophone: source (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

語源 1

From Middle English sauce,^[1] from Old French sause, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), past participle of saliō (“I salt”), from sal^[2]. Doublet of salsa.

名詞

sauce (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 sauces)

1. A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
   • 2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better‎^[2], Plum, →ISBN, page 192:

     You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.

   apple sauce; mint sauce

2. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, India) Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:

   [meat] pie and [tomato] sauce

3. (slang, usually “the”) Alcohol, booze.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage

   Maybe you should lay off the sauce.

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     […] she was thinking of her first husband, who was a heel to end all heels and a constant pain in the neck to her till one night he most fortunately walked into the River Thames while under the influence of the sauce and didn't come up for days.

   • 1993, Tristan Hawkins, Pepper, London: Flamingo, →ISBN, page 110:

     I've been pretty much off the sauce during the last week, trying to get Pepper to like me again. (Horace won't drink with me any more.)

4. (bodybuilding) Anabolic steroids.
5. (art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
6. (dated) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
   • 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, volume 2, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., published 1968, →ISBN, page 691:

     "See here, Captain!" He planted himself squarely in front of Faramir, his hands on his hips, and a look on his face as if he was addressing a young hobbit who had offered him what he called "sauce" when questioned about visiting the orchard.

   • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 39:

     ‘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.

7. (US, obsolete slang, 1800s) Vegetables.
   • 1833, John Neal, The Down-Easters: &c. &c. &c., volume 1, Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 91:

     I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse [...]

   • 1882, George W. Peck, “Unscrewing the Top of a Fruit Jar”, in Peck's Sunshine‎^[3]:

     [...] 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."

8. (obsolete, UK, US, dialect) Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
   • 1705, Robert Beverley, The History of Virginia:

     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.

   • 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, “Ch. VIII”, in A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier:

     The first night of our expedition, we boiled our meat; and I asked the landlady for a little sauce, she told me to go to the garden and take as much cabbage as I pleased, and that, boiled with the meat, was all we could eat.

同意語

• sowl

派生語

関連する語

• (alcohol):
  • hit the sauce
  • lost in the sauce
  • on the sauce
  • sauced
  • sauce parlor, sauce parlour

派生した語

• → Japanese: ソース
• → Scottish Gaelic: sabhs

動詞

sauce (三人称単数 現在形 sauces, 現在分詞 saucing, 過去形および過去分詞形 sauced)

1. To add sauce to; to season.
2. To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.
   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     Earth, yield me roots; / Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate / With thy most operant poison!

3. To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
   • a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:

     Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.

4. (colloquial) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

     I'll sauce her with bitter words.

   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "A bit of real starvin' would do them no 'arm, and I would 'ave less sauce." "What, has Willie sauced you?" "Yes, when 'e woke up." […] "Wot did he say?" "Cursed me good and proper, 'e did."

5. (slang) To send or hand over.

派生語

• sauce up

参考

Category:en:Sauces

名詞

sauce (複数形 sauces)

1. (Internet slang) Alternative form of source, often used when requesting the source of an image or other posted material.

参照

アナグラム

• 'cause, Eacus, cause

接尾辞

-sauce

1. (slang) Used to add emphasis to adjectives, especially those that relate to cool- or uncoolness.

   ‎awesome + ‎-sauce → ‎awesomesauce

   ‎weak + ‎-sauce → ‎weaksauce

   ‎hot + ‎-sauce → ‎hotsauce

   ‎lame + ‎-sauce → ‎lamesauce

使用する際の注意点

• Sometimes written with a space or a dash.

派生語

アナグラム

• 'cause, cause