-sauce

See also: sauce and Sauce

English

Etymology

Probably generalized from awesome sauce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /-sɔːs/ (The stress is on the stress of the root.)

Suffix

-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

Usage notes

• Sometimes written with a space or a dash.

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -sauce

• awesome sauce, awesomesauce, awesome-sauce
• beatsauce
• boss sauce
• dumb sauce
• fail sauce
• gay sauce
• scary sauce
• sweet sauce
• win sauce

 

Anagrams

• 'cause, Eacus, cause