sauced

adjective Slang.

1. intoxicated; drunk.

noun

1. any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
2. stewed fruit, often puréed and served as an accompaniment to meat, dessert, or other food: cranberry sauce.
3. something that adds piquance or zest.
4. Informal. impertinence; sauciness.
5. Slang. hard liquor (usually preceded by the): He’s on the sauce again.
6. Archaic. garden vegetables eaten with meat.

verb (used with object), sauced, sauc·ing.

7. to dress or prepare with sauce; season: meat well sauced.
8. to make a sauce of: Tomatoes must be sauced while ripe.
9. to give piquance or zest to.
10. to make agreeable or less harsh.
11. Informal. to speak impertinently or saucily to.

noun

1. any liquid or semiliquid preparation eaten with food to enhance its flavour
2. anything that adds piquancy
3. US and Canadian stewed fruit
4. US dialect vegetables eaten with meat
5. informal impudent language or behaviour

verb (tr)

6. to prepare (food) with sauce
7. to add zest to
8. to make agreeable or less severe
9. informal to be saucy to

n.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. v.mid-15c., “to season,” from sauce (n.). From 1862 as “to speak impertinently.” Related: Sauced; saucing. In addition to the idiom beginning with sauce

sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, what’s

also see:

hit the bottle (sauce)