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applesauce
noun ap·ple·sauce \-ˌsȯs\
: a sweet sauce made from cooked apples
Full Definition of APPLESAUCE
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: a relish or dessert made of apples stewed to a pulp and sweetened
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First Known Use of APPLESAUCE
1704
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- Synonyms
- nonsense [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blah (also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle
Rhymes with APPLESAUCE
albatross, at a loss, autocross, Celtic cross, chili sauce, come across, cyclo-cross, dental floss, double-cross, for a loss, get across, intercross, Irish moss, Latin cross, Maltese cross, motocross, Navy Cross, Northern Cross, papal cross, put across, reindeer moss, run across, semigloss, single cross, Southern Cross, Spanish moss, underboss
APPLESAUCE Defined for Kids
applesauce
noun ap·ple·sauce \ˈa-pəl-ˌsȯs\
Definition of APPLESAUCE for Kids
: a sweet sauce made from cooked apples
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