单词 | sauced |
释义 | saucedadj. 1. a. Seasoned, flavoured, or garnished with a sauce or (in early use) a condiment or other accompaniment; (now usually) served with a sauce. Frequently with modifying word, as richly, simply, etc. Also figurative and in figurative contexts.In quot. 1566, with reference to a poisoned or cursed robe given by Medea to Creusa in ancient Greek legend. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > seasoning > [adjective] seasonedc1440 well-seasoned1440 powdered1563 sauced1566 flavoured1740 well-flavoured?1775 1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Medea iv. f. 38v So season thou those sawced robes to worke Creusas woe. 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. i. iii. 7 He [sc. Lycaon] brings his limmes and setteth them before His Countrimen to feed vpon in saused dishes store. 1655 E. Waterhouse Modest Disc. Piety, Charity & Policy 143 How greedy are men..to devour a well-sauced poyson. 1783 J. C. Prieur Boyer's Royal Dict. II. Sauced,..(accompanied with something of higher relish) assaisonné. 1891 Daily Tel. 23 Apr. 7/2 Highly-spiced and richly-sauced viands are rather detrimental than beneficial to the health of the epicure. 1996 Sunday Tel. Mag. 28 July 34/1 The chef is terribly good on plain, simply-sauced fish. 2004 Hartford (Connecticut) Mag. July 101/2 ‘Burnt ends’..are large, purpose-cut cubes of smoked and sauced beef brisket..sort of the pot roast of barbecue. b. With up. Of food: embellished or made more flavoursome by the addition of a sauce; (figurative) that has been embellished or made fancy or showy in some way; (now) esp. made more exciting or daring (cf. sauce v. 3c). ΚΠ 1894 Barnesville (Georgia) Gaz. 2 Aug. Everything is so raw and half cooked that I don't eat three things out of the whole lot, and everything is so sauced up that it is entirely unpalatable to me. 1919 Peninsula Enterprise (Accomac, Va.) 30 Aug. 10 (advt.) Keep yo' put-on airs an' ‘sauced-up’ tobaccos for the fellow that likes nut sundaes better than home made pie. 1944 Daily Mail 19 Dec. 2/7 You can defend British food against all the sauced-up concoctions in the world! 2000 Times 2 Oct. 17/1 The sense of fun, grew and grew right up to the sassy, sauced-up finale. 2. Chiefly North American. Taking the form of a sauce; made into sauce. rare before 20th cent.In quot. 1651 with reference to medicine; cf. sauce n. 3. ΚΠ 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs §160 Their sauc'd Julaps. 1931 Olean (N.Y.) Evening Times 1 June 13/4 After feeding 'em raw, stewed and sauced apples all thru the Depression, I don't see how the country expected to keep their movie queens at home. 2004 Idaho Falls Post Reg. (Nexis) 29 Sept. (Food and home section) b1 Coarsely crush half of the cooked apples with a potato masher. Press remaining apples through a sieve. Combine crushed and sauced apples. 3. slang (originally U.S.). Intoxicated, drunk. Also (and earliest) in sauced up. Cf. sauce n. 6a.Chiefly in predicative use. ΚΠ 1939 Des Moines (Iowa) Tribune 8 Feb. a1/6 He had a few too many beakers, and, ogling all the ladies, kept demanding: ‘Who is going to kiss me good-night?’ Finally a chap..said: ‘I will kiss you good-night.’... The sauced up interloper, unable to think of an answer to that one, left. 1968 F. Exley Fan's Notes (1985) 352 She had met a big, brusque, sandaled, red-bearded poet who..had got her sauced, had slapped her face. 1988 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 25 Feb. Walking down the hallway without crashing off the walls like a sauced-up somnambulist is another pleasant first for me. 2015 A. Johnson Fortune Smiles 165 The times Gitte rang up, lonely and guilt-ridden, half sauced in the early afternoon as she confessed to infidelities I didn't want to hear about. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < adj.1566 |
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