-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

(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

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