Applesauce

Definition: Applesauce

Applesauce

Noun

1. Puree of stewed apples usually sweetened and spiced.

2. Nonsensical talk or writing.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "applesauce" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Synonyms: Applesauce

Crosswords: Applesauce

And if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does (Animal Crackers; writing credit: George S. Kaufman; Morrie Ryskind)

Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does (Animal Crackers; writing credit: George S. Kaufman; Morrie Ryskind)

In the Shade of the Old Applesauce (1931)

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Books

• Aldo Applesauce (reference)

• Applesauce (reference)

• Criss-Cross, Applesauce (reference)

• From Apple Seed to Applesauce (reference)

• Mushrooms and Applesauce (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Technician Janet Chan adds a precise amount of B vitamin folate solution to a dish of applesauce. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Brian Prechtel..

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Health

Examples are bananas, rice, tapioca, bread, potatoes, applesauce, cheese, smooth peanut butter, yogurt, pasta, and oatmeal. (references)

To give your child the medicine, break open the gelatin capsule and mix the drug with something sweet, such as applesauce, chocolate syrup, or jelly. (references)

You may want to start with small amounts of low-fiber foods such as rice, bananas, applesauce, mashed potatoes, low-fat cottage cheese, and dry toast. (references)

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Expression using "applesauce": applesauce cake. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

ябълково пюре, глупости (all my eye, balderdash, baloney, blague, blah, bleat, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, buncombe, cod, crap, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, footle, fudge, guff, gup, hokum, humbug, jiggery pokery, junk, kibosh, monkey business, monkeybusiness, nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rhubarb, rot, rubbish, shucks, slush, stuff and nonsense, tack, tommy rot, truck, trumpery). (various references)

Czech

jableèné pyré, hlouposti. (various references)

German

Apfelmus (apple puree, apple sauce, apple-sauce). (various references)

Greek 

πουρέσ μήλων. (various references)

Hebrew 

שטויות (balderdash, baloney, bunk, drivel, moonshine, nonsense, nuts, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery). (various references)

Indonesian

saus apel. (various references)

Italian

sciocchezze (balderdash, baloney, bosh, nuts, poppycock, rot, rubbish, shucks, tripe), salsa di mele. (various references)

Pig Latin

applesauceay.(various references)

Portuguese

tolice (barney, blunder, bosh, bungle, fiddle-de-dee, flapdoodle, folly, foolery, foolishness, guff, gup, howler, ineptitude, ineptness, infelicity, moonshine, mush, nonsense, piffle, rot, silliness, simplicity, tomfoolery, tommy rot, tripe, twaddle, unreason), molho de maçã (apple butter), bobagem (baloney, foolishness, fudge). (various references)

Russian 

яблочный соус (aplesauce), яблочное пюре. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sos od jabuka, besmislica (balderdash, blah, blether, bosh, bull, bunkum, double dutch, double talk, extravagance, fiddlestick, flubdub, mush, nonsense, pointlessness, ruck, tosh). (various references)

Spanish

pure de manzana, disparate (absurdity, blunder, Folly, piffle), compota de manzana, coba (blarney, soft soap, taffy). (various references)

Turkish

saçmalık (absurdity, balderdash, bilge, blather, blatherskite, blether, bosh, drivel, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, gab, galimatias, gassing, gibberish, guff, hog-wash, hokum, hooey, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, lark, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, shenanigan, silliness, spinach, stuff, talkee-talkee, the irrational, trash, triviality, twaddle, vacuity, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash), saçma (absurd, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bunk, bunkum, chimerical, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastic, fantastical, farcical, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, foolish, for the birds, froth, frothy, fudge, go on, hog-wash, hooey, impertinent, inane, incongruous, inept, irrational, jabber wocky, kibosh, laugh, malarkey, nonsense, nonsensical, outlandish, paltry, pointless, poppycock, raving, rhubarb, rot, scattering, senseless, shot, shucks, skittles, small shot, smearcase, sorry, spinach, stuff, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trifling, tripe, trivial, trumpery, unreasonable, wacky, waffle, whacky), palavra (baloney, boasting, boloney, bounce, braggadocio, bragging, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, cock and bull story, eyewash, fish story, flubdub, flummery, gaff, hot air, jazz, lie, palaver, talkee-talkee, tall story), elma püresi, boş lâf (babble, balderdash, bosh, bunkum, comment, empty words, falderal, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, flimflam, flubdub, flummery, froth, fudge, gab, galimatias, garbage, gas, guff, haver, hokum, hooey, hot air, inanity, jazz, lark, moonshine, palaver, poppycock, punk, routine, small talk, talky-talk, tripe, vaporings, vapourings, waffle, wind, wishy-wash). (various references)

Ukrainian

яблучне пюре, яблучний соус, грубі лестощі (butter, taffy), нісенітниця (balderdash, bilge, blah, bosh, drivel, flam, flubdub, haver, jiggery pokery, nonsense, shucks, slaver, tommyrot), дурниця (absurdity, absurdness, balderdash, ballyhoo, bosh, buncombe, froth, humbug, mush, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, porridge, rigmarole, rubbish, sappiness, shucks, slum, trash, tripe). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "applesauce": applesauces. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Applesauce" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: applecote, applesause, applesque. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: applause, scapulae.

-3 letters: appeals, appease, appulse, capsule, euclase, palaces, papulae, papules, peepuls, scaleup, scapula, specula, upleaps, upscale.

-4 letters: appals, appeal, appels, apples, asleep, calesa, casual, caules, causal, clause, clepes, culpae, cupels, cuppas, elapse, escape, palace, paleae, palpus, papula, papule, pascal, pausal, peaces, peepul, peplus, places, please, salpae, supple, upleap.

-5 letters: alecs, apace, appal, appel.

+1 letter: applesauces.