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tomato-saucy en · ADJ

Etymology

From tomato sauce + -y.

Meanings

1. With tomato sauce.
   • The cafeteria’s offering today was stuffed tomatoes, supposedly filled with some weird vegetarian tomato-saucy rice mix, but when Sol poked through the stuffing, he uncovered suspicious-looking brown-grey lumps in it that he thought might be sausage. 2012, Kyell Gold, Green Fairy, St. Paul, Minn.: Sofawolf Press, →ISBN, page 174:
   • Max: I ordered a triple decker sandwich of cold cuts, not this tomato-saucy concoction! 1990, Thomas L[ee] Veenendall, Marjorie C. Feinstein, Let’s Talk About Relationships: Cases in Study, Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, →ISBN, page 51:
   • Two pizzas had just been delivered to the dorm, and we were piled into Annette and Becca’s room, buzzing around the cheesy, crusty, tomato-saucy pies like starved flies. 2016, Jane B. Mason, chapter 17, in Without Annette, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Press, →ISBN, page 147:
   • She grinned as Linda slapped an arm around my shoulders and a tomato-saucy chip into my mouth. 2006, Adrian Hyland, Moonlight Downs, New York, N.Y.: Soho Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 87:
   • Cheese-filled battered eggplant rolls with a tomato-saucy flair. 1980, “[Vegetable Dishes and Casseroles] Eggplant Italiano”, in Yankee Church Supper Cookbook, Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 81:
   • This filling dish features tomato-saucy pasta with lots of lemony ground lamb for a Greek flair. 2013, Jean Paré, The Essential Company’s Coming Slow Cooker, volume 1, Edmonton, Alta.: Company’s Coming Publishing Limited, →ISBN, page 155:
   • “Thanks for getting this,” I said around a hot mouthful of extra tomato-saucy heaven. 2016, Janey Mack, chapter 26, in Shoot ’Em Up, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 186:
   • I grew up in New Orleans and a sloppy joe to me was a tomato-saucy ground meat thing that you put into a bun. 2021 January 29, Eli Manning, quotee, “Eli Manning on His Viral Sloppy Joes, Social Media and Why He Wants to Pour Hot Sauce on a TikTok Star's Head”, in People, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2021:
   • LeMat grinned: a rather disgusting cheesy-and-tomato-saucy sight. 1995, Bruce Bethke, Headcrash, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, page 170:
   • Our Franks in Blankets—an outdoor treat loaded with small-fry appeal—owe their unusual zest to pickle-sweet, tomato-saucy Heinz Hamburger Relish . . . 1960 June, “3 easy new ideas to make cook-outs more fun”, in Farm Journal, volume LXXXIV, number 6, Philadelphia, Pa.: Farm Journal Inc., page 66, column 1:
   • Up rises that sweet and tantalizing fragrance—the hot, spicy aroma of Heinz baked beans—slowly browned in heat flooded ovens. Flavor baked into them—flavor baked through and through them—from tender, golden skin to juicy, tomato-saucy center. 1928 March, Ladies’ Home Journal, volume XLV, number 3, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, page 55:
   • I’ve already braved a completely (thankfully) unconvincing Jack the Ripper scene in Madame T’s Chamber of Horrors – with Mitre Square and Catherine Eddowes’ tomato-saucy body shifted half a mile to right outside the Ten Bells pub – and it would never do to get my historical facts too confused with fiction. 1998, Derek Hammond, London, England: A Day-Tripper’s Travelogue from the Coolest City in the World, Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:
   • Oregano is a natural with fava beans, eggplant, tomatoes, and most all tomato-saucy Italian dishes—such as pastas with marinara sauce, pizzas, calzones, Italian hoagies, sausage sandwiches—and with Greek dishes such as souvlaki. 2006, Jeff Cox, The Organic Cook’s Bible: How to Select and Cook the Best Ingredients on the Market, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 402, column 1:
   • 'So I'm thinking, maybe something to do with pasta, because pasta is cheap, pasta's easy and I think, who doesn't like pasta, really?' she [Brooke Smith] says. / 'I'm thinking about a sauce, not sure quite sure what sauce, people like bolognese, but that involves mince, and I bet meat is quite expensive. Maybe they'll just have a tomato-saucy pasta, that'd be nice.' 2021 May 31, Claire Toureille, “'Sheltered' beauty queen, 22, who wears £7,000 Rolex is left red-faced as she struggles to turn the oven on and cook a simple pesto pasta dish for a struggling single mother-of-nine and her family on Rich Kids Go Skint”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 May 2021:
   • “Beans and weenies.” Melba Jane’s lips curled as if she were retasting both. “That’s all we got, lunch and supper, and scant little of it for nigh onto two years.” / With the emphasis on beans, Ramey assumed, and not the yummy, tomato-saucy kind she’d spooned straight from the can on family camping trips. 2006, Suzann Ledbetter, Once a Thief, Toronto, Ont.: MIRA, →ISBN, pages 25–26:
2. Resembling or characteristic of tomato sauce.
   • Mrs. Vanucci even kissed me and hugged me close to her ample, warm, tomato-saucy bosom. 1998, Patricia Johnson Eilola, A Finntown of the Heart, St. Cloud, Minn.: North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc., →ISBN, page 42:
   • The smell of dead fish, rotting meat, and Italian spices washed over me. […] The fishy, tomato-saucy reek of the bears hung in the air like bad breath in an elevator. 2006, Pete Hautman, Rash, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 91:
   • Here’s tomato-saucy flavor kids can’t resist! 1957 August 22, “Van Camp’s Beans with Pork”, in The Windsor Daily Star, volume 78, number 146, Windsor, Ont., page 7:

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