-sauce

See also: sauce and Sauce

English

Etymology

Probably a back-formation 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
    ‎lame + ‎-sauce → ‎lamesauce

Usage notes

  • Sometimes written with a space or a dash.

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -sauce
crazysauce
dopesauce
lamesauce
weaksauce

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