Englishsauce
noun
1 serve with a piquant sauce and redcurrant jelly:
relish, dressing, condiment, ketchup, flavouring;
dip;
French jus, coulis.
2 British, informal ‘I'll have less of your sauce,’ said Aunt Edie:
impudence, impertinence, cheek, cheekiness, effrontery, irreverence, sauciness, pertness, freshness, flippancy, insolence, rudeness, disrespect, disrespectfulness, familiarity, presumption, presumptuousness, audacity, audaciousness, boldness, brazenness, forwardness, cockiness, shamelessness;
informal mouth, lip, neck, brass neck, nerve, face;
British, informal backchat;
Scottish, informal snash;
North American, informal sassiness, sass, chutzpah, smart mouth, back talk;
archaic malapertness, contumely;
rare procacity.
▷antonyms politeness, respectfulness.
3 North American, informal she's been on the sauce for years:
alcohol, liquor, alcoholic drink, strong drink, intoxicating drink;
British spirits;
informal booze, the bottle, the hard stuff, mother's milk, hooch;
British, informal wallop;
Northern English, & Irish, informal sup;
North American, informal juice;
US, informal bellywash;
Australian, New Zealand, informal grog.
sauce Oxford Dictionary of English