Applesauce

Alternative forms

• apple sauce UK

Origin

apple + sauce

Full definition of applesauce

Noun

1. (US) Apple sauce.
• 1955, Beverly Cleary, , page 101Because Mother had been so busy making applesauce, dinner was a little late that night.
2. (slang, US, dated, 1920s) Nonsense, balderdash, bunk, piffle.

Derived terms

• applesauce cake
• criss-cross applesauce

Interjection

1. (slang, US, dated) nonsense!