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apple sauce en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A culinary dish prepared by pureeing cooked apples.
2. (alt-of, alternative, countable, dated, slang, uncountable) Alternative spelling of applesauce (“nonsense”).
   alt of applesauce
   • “You mean that I am now labelled not only as a loony in a general sort of way but also as a klept-whatever-it-is?” “Merely to your immediate circle now resident at Brinkley Court, sir.” “You keep saying that, and you must know it's the purest apple sauce. You don't really think the Creams will maintain a tactful reserve? They'll dine out on it for years. Returning to America, they'll spread the story from the rock-bound coasts of Maine to the Everglades of Florida, with the result that when I go over there again, keen looks will be shot at me at every house I go into and spoons counted before I leave.” 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “VI AND XXI”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

Forms

Coordinates

apple juice · apple butter

Deriveds

apple saucey · BRAT

Translations (26)

nl appelcompote (a culinary dish) · nb eplemos (a culinary dish) · pt purê de maçã (a culinary dish) · is eplamús (a culinary dish) · fr marmelade de pommes (a culinary dish) · da æblemos (a culinary dish) · nn eplemos (a culinary dish) · es compota de manzanas (a culinary dish) · rsk яблукова мачанка (a culinary dish) · it passata di mela (a culinary dish) · yi עפּל־קאָמפּאָט (a culinary dish) · tr elma ezmesi (a culinary dish) · it purea di mela (a culinary dish) · sv äpplemos (a culinary dish) · fi omenasose (a culinary dish) · fr compote de pommes (a culinary dish) · pdt Aupelmooss (a culinary dish) · pdt Aupelmoos (a culinary dish) · ru я́блочное пюре́ (a culinary dish) · nl appelmoes (a culinary dish) · is eplamauk (a culinary dish) · nl appelspijs (a culinary dish) · sv äppelmos (a culinary dish) · ga anlann úll (a culinary dish) · de Apfelmus (a culinary dish) · nrf gelot (a culinary dish)