• SAUBY-DAUBY
n. cajolery, excessive flattery …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SAUCE
n. 1. that which refreshes or invigorates …a1500
n. 2. an impudent person …a1553 obs.
n. 3. cheek, impudence …L16
n. 4. a venereal disease …L17
n. 5. vaginal fluids …L17
n. 6. vegetables, esp. green vegetables eaten with meat …1775 Eng. & Amer. dial.
n. 7. money …M18 sl.
n. 8. gravy, the juice of meat …1787 Sc.
n. 9. vanity, pride, display …1793 Sc.
n. 10. fresh berries served as dessert; stewed or preserved fruit served as a condiment or dessert …1894 Amer. dial.
n. 11. talk, conversation …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 12. a scolding; blame, recrimination, abuse …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 13. melted butter …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 14. petrol, gasoline …1910s US sl.
n. 15. alcohol …1930s sl., orig. US
n. 16. a narcotic drug; narcotic drugs …1953 sl., orig. US
n. 17. in drag racing: a fuel mixed from nitromethane and alcohol …1968 US sl.
n. 18. beer …1970s US students’ sl.
n. 19. semen …1970s US homosexual sl.
n. 20. something bad or inferior …1990s US students’ sl.
n. 21. spirit, courage …1997 US sl.
vb. 1. to exacerbate suffering …c1510 obs.
vb. 2. to make pleasant or agreeable, to reduce the asperity of severity of …1514
vb. 3. to make piquantly exciting …1555
vb. 4. to belabour, to beat a person, to flog …1598 obs.
vb. 5. to overcharge …1598 obs.
vb. 6. to rebuke smartly, to reprove; to scold; to find fault with; to abuse …1600 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 7. to make bitter …1614 obs.
vb. 8. to be impertinent to; to answer impudently; to be cheeky, to tease; to speak rudely to …1862 Eng. dial.
vb. 9. to garnish; to adorn …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 10. to ruin …1990s US students’ sl.
• THE SAUCE
n. the best …1982 Bahamas sl.
• SAUCEBOX
n. an impudent person, esp. a child; a saucy or a person addicted to making saucy or impertinent remarks …1588 colloq.
n. 2. the mouth …M19 sl.
• SAUCE-CROON
n. a ridiculous or grotesque object …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SAUCED
adj. drunk; tipsy …1940s US sl.
• SAUCEDUP
adj. drunk; tipsy …1940s US sl.
• SAUCE-GARDEN
n. a garden in which vegetables are grown for the table …1837
• SAUCE-HOUND
n. a drunkard; an alcoholic …1940s US sl.
• SAUCELESS
adj. bland, insipid …1899
• SAUCELINESS
n. sauciness …1552 obs. rare
• SAUCE MALAPERT
n. impertinence, insolence …1529 obs.
• SAUCE MALAPERTLY
adv. in a manner insolently abusive …1556 obs.
• SAUCE-MAN
n. one who deals in vegetables …1837 US
• SAUCE-MEDLEY
n. an incongruous mixture; a concoction …1579 obs.
• SAUCEPAN
n. 1. a small dish for holding melted butter, etc. …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a pound …1951 UK rhyming sl. for ‘quid’ (Saucepan Lid)
n. 3. a Jewish person …1960 UK rhyming sl. for ‘Yid’ (Saucepan Lid)
n. 4. a child …1960 UK rhyming sl. for ‘kid’ (Saucepan Lid)
• SAUCEPAN HANDLE
n. the penis …2000s sl.
• SAUCE-PAN LID
n. 1. a Jewish man or woman …19C Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘Yid’, derogatory
n. 2. money; usually in the plural …L19 rhyming sl. for ‘quid’
n. 3. a tease; a ‘leg-pull’ …L19 rhyming sl. for ‘kid’
n. 4. a pound …1951 Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘quid’
n. 5. a child …1961 rhyming sl. for ‘kid’
• SAUCEPANS
n. the vertebrae of fish …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SAUCEPOT
n. an impudent person …1998 UK sl.
• SAUCER
n. 1. a receptacle, usually of metal, for holding the condiments at a meal; a dish or deep plate in which salt or sauces were placed upon the table …a1300 obs.
n. 2. a sausage …1772 Sc.
n. 3. an eye …M19 sl.
n. 4. a silver dollar …1959 US sl.
n. 5. a metal or plastic coasting sled in the shape of a shallow, circular bowl …1965 Amer. dial.
n. 6. in pinball: a scoring hole with a bevelled lip …1977 US sl.
n. 7. a tablet of MDMA …1996 UK drug culture sl.
• SAUCERED AND BLOWED
adj. all ready to go; prepared for use in any way …1987 Can. sl.
• SAUCER EYE
n. an eye as large and round as a saucer; generally ascribed to spectres and ghosts …1664
• SAUCER-EYED
adj. having large, round eyes …1622
• SAUCER-EYES
n. 1. large full eyes …1805 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a person with large eyes …1869 Eng. dial.
• SAUCER-MEAT
n. sausages …1892 Sc.
• SAUCERS
n. the eyes …1864 sl.
• SAUCERY
n. the department of a household entrusted with the preparation of sauces …c1440 obs.
• SAUCHT
n. peace, quiet, tranquillity …1710 Sc. obs.
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• SAUCIATE
adj. wounded, hurt …1509 obs.
vb. to wound, to hurt, to cut …1656 obs. rare
• SAUCIATION
n. a wounding …1658 obs. rare
• SAUCISSON
n. a large thick sausage …1760-72
• SAUCISTER
n. a sausage …1347 obs.
• SAUCY
adj. 1. flavoured with or pertaining to sauce; resembling sauce; savoury …1508 obs.
adj. 2. dainty as to food, fastidious …1573 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
adj. 3. scornful, disdainful, contemptuous …1716 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
adj. 4. proud, vain, conceited …1773 Sc.
adj. 5. independent, self-reliant …1856 Eng. dial. obs.
adj. 6. slippery, difficult for walking …1880 Eng. dial.
adj. 7. improper; indecent …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
adj. 8. dirty, untidy …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
adj. 9. of the weather: brilliant, fine …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
adj. 10. very drunk …1997 US sl.
adj. 11. attractive; desired …2004 US sl.
• SAUCY AS A JAYBIRD
adj. extremely saucy …1952 Amer. dial.
• SAUCY-BOX
n. a person addicted to making saucy or impertinent remarks …1588 colloq.
• SAUCY-FACE
n. an impertinent person …1684
• SAUCY-HUNGRY
adj. not hungry enough to eat plain food, but requiring the palate to be tempted …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SAUCY JACK
n. a cheeky, impudent man …M16 sl.
• SAUDI COOL
adj. warm to hot …1991 US Gulf war usage
• SAUERKRAUT
n. 1. a German …M18 sl., chiefly Aust. & US, derogatory
n. 2. a cantankerous person; a term of abuse …M19 sl., chiefly Aust. & US sl.
• SAUERKRAUT EATER
n. a German or person of Germany ancestry; also, a nickname for such a person …1918 Amer. dial.
• SAUERKRAUTER
n. 1. a German …M18 sl., chiefly Aust. & US, derogatory
n. 2. a cantankerous person; a term of abuse …M19 sl., chiefly Aust. & US sl.
• SAUFFLING
adj. foolish, weak …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SAUGHEN
adj. weak, wanting in energy …1875 Sc.
• SAUGHT
adj. in agreement, free from strife, at peace, reconciled …956 obs.
n. 1. an agreement, covenant …1038-50 obs.
n. 2. agreement, freedom from strife, peace …c1100 obs.
n. 3. peace, quiet, tranquillity …1641 Sc. obs.
vb. to bring to peace; to reconcile …c1000 obs.
• SAUGHTEL
vb. 1. to reconcile persons …a1122 obs.
vb. 2. to come to agreement, to become reconciled …1154 obs.
vb. 3. to become calm or quiet …a1300 obs.
• SAUGHTELING
n. reconciliation …a1300 obs.
• SAUGHTEN
vb. 1. to reconcile …c1175 obs.
vb. 2. to become reconciled or at peace …c1205 obs.
• SAUGHTENING
n. bringing about concord or peace …a1300 obs.
• SAUGHTLINESS
n. reconciliation …a1300 obs. rare
• SAUGHTNESS
n. the condition of being reconciled …c1000 obs.
• SAUGHY
adj. weak, wanting in energy …1818 Sc.
• SAULE
vb. to satisfy, to fill with food …c1430 obs.
• SAULEE
n. satisfaction of appetite; a satisfying meal or quantity of food …1377 obs.
• SAULIE
n. a hired mourner at a funeral who preceded the cortege with a black staff and other symbols of mourning, a mute …1621 Sc. obs.
• SAULT
n. 1. assault, attack …1297 obs.
n. 2. a leap, a jump; esp. of horses …a1350 obs.
n. 3. a waterfall or rapid …1600 N. Amer.
vb. 1. to assault, to attack …1387 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to leap, to dance …1377 obs. rare
• SAULTABLE
adj. capable of being assaulted or attacked …1556 obs.
• SAULTING
n. the act of assaulting or attacking …c1489 obs.
• SAULTY
n. a penny …1859 UK sl.
• SAUMPY
adj. weak-minded, foolish …1856 Eng. dial.
• SAUNT
vb. to disappear, to vanish; to be lost, esp. in a sudden or mysterious manner …1737 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• SAUNTER
n. 1. a foolish scruple, an excuse, a shilly-shally …1837 Sc.
n. 2. an idle tale; an old wife’s tale …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to loiter over one’s work, to dawdle …1673 obs.
vb. 2. to trifle, to play about in a casual offhand manner …a1810 Sc.
• SAUNTERER
n. a dawdler, a trifler …1688 obs.
• SAUNTERING
adj. 1. given to dawdling over one’s work …1673 obs.
adj. 2. of a story: foolish, trumpery …1726 obs.
n. dawdling, trifling …1678 obs.
• SAUNTER-POKE
n. one of slow habits …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SAUNTERSOME
adj. slow, leisurely, unhurried …1912 Sc.
• SAUNTIFEE
vb. to strut about in a self-righteous manner …1949 Sc.
• SAUNTRELL
n. a term of contempt …c1440 obs. rare
• SAUNTRY
adj. characterized by sauntering …1732 obs. rare
• SAUPIQUET
n. a piquant sauce …1656-7 rare
• SAUROPHAGOUS
adj. eating lizards and other reptiles …Bk1914
• SAUSAGE
n. 1. the penis; the erect penis …M17 sl.
n. 2. a German …1890 sl.
n. 3. an ineffectual, easily imposed-upon person …L19 sl.
n. 4. a type of German trench-mortar bomb …1915 sl.
n. 5. a prize-fighter, esp. one with a swollen bruised face …1930s US sl.
n. 6. a nickname for a German or a German soldier …World War II US sl., derogatory
n. 7. a stupid person; an oaf …M20 US sl.
n. 8. marijuana …1968 US sl.
n. 9. a marijuana cigarette, esp. a fat one …1978 sl.
n. 10. someone foolish or gullible; used as a gently reproving term of address …1982 UK sl.
n. 11. an affectionate form of address, used while reproving or gently chiding a child or lover …1982 UK sl.
n. 12. a man …1990s US college sl.
vb. to cash (a cheque) …1920s rhyming sl. based on ‘sausage and mash’
• SAUSAGE A GOOSE’S
b. to cash a cheque …1920s sl.
• SAUSAGE AND MASH
n. 1. a crash; a collision …1961 UK rhyming sl.
n. 2. cash, money …1976 UK rhyming sl.
• SAUSAGE BALLOON
n. an observation balloon …1916 sl.
• SAUSAGE DOG
n. a dachshund …1938 jocular usage
• SAUSAGE-EATER
n. a German …1910s sl.
• SAUSAGE-EATING
adj. German …1910s sl.
• SAUSAGE FEST
n. a mostly male gathering …1990s U S college sl.
• SAUSAGE-GRINDER
n. 1. a prostitute …20C sl.
n. 2. the vagina …20C sl.
• SAUSAGE HOUND
n. a dachshund …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SAUSAGE JOCKEY
n. a male homosexual …1980s US sl.
• SAUSAGE PARTY
n. a mostly male gathering …1990s U S college sl.
• SAUSAGE ROLL
n. 1. unemployment benefit, the dole …1920s rhyming sl.
n. 2. a person of Polish nationality or descent …1940s Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘Pole’, not necessarily derogatory
n. 3. a goal …1960s Aust. rhyming sl.
• SAUSAGES
n. 1. fetters …M19 sl.
n. 2. side-whiskers …M19 sl.
• SAUSAGE SANDWICH
n. 1. intercourse between the breasts …1990s sl.
n. 2. sex between two men and one woman …1990s sl.
• SAUSAGE SMUGGLER
n. a male homosexual …1990s sl.
• SAUSAGE WRAPPER
n. a newspaper …L19 Aust. sl.
• SAUSENGER
n. a sausage …1851 Amer. dial.
• SAUSERLING
n. a sausage …1475 obs. rare
• SAUSIE
n. a sausage …1990s NZ sl.
• SAUSINGER
n. a sausage …1872 Eng. dial.
• SAUSSINGER
n. a sausage …19C sl.
• SAUTE
vb. to leap, to dance …1377 obs. rare
• SAUTER
vb. 1. to fry with a little butter over a brisk fire, to sauté …1869
vb. 2. to saunter, to walk leisurely, to loiter …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SAUTHER-POKE
n. a loiterer, a procrastinator …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SAUTIES!
int. a cry for a truce in a game …1967 Sc.
• SAUVE ABOUT
vb. to go about in a in idle, foolish manner …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SAUVENDIE
n. learning, knowledge …1822 Sc.
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