applesauce

See also: apple-sauce, and apple sauce

English

Alternative forms

• apple sauce (UK)

Etymology

From apple +‎ sauce.

Pronunciation

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Noun

applesauce (countable and uncountable, plural applesauces)

1. (American spelling) Alternative spelling of apple sauce.
   • 1955, Beverly Cleary, Beezus and Ramona, page 101:

     Because Mother had been so busy making applesauce, dinner was a little late that night.

2. (slang, US, dated, 1920s) Nonsense, balderdash, bunk, piffle.

Synonyms

• (nonsense): codswallop, hooey, malarkey; see also Thesaurus:nonsense

Derived terms

• applesauce cake
• applesaucey
• applesaucey
• criss-cross applesauce

 

Translations

apple sauce — see apple sauce

nonsense

• Dutch: flauwekul (nl) m, zever (nl) m
• French: balivernes f pl
• Swedish: snömos (sv) n

Interjection

applesauce!

1. (slang, US, dated) Nonsense!

Synonyms

• fiddlesticks, horsefeathers, pull the other one; see also Thesaurus:bullshit

Translations

nonsense

• Dutch: flauwekul (nl)!
• French: balivernes (fr)!