Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sweet-and-sour sauce

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English

Syllables: sweet--and--sour sauce
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A sticky sauce used in Chinese cuisine that tastes both sugary and tart.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Calque of Chinese 甜酸醬 /甜酸酱 (tiánsuānjiàng, literally “sweet sour sauce”).

Usage

Inflected Forms

sweet-and-sour sauces (plural)

Questions

What does sweet-and-sour sauce mean?: A sticky sauce used in Chinese cuisine that tastes both sugary and tart.
Where does sweet-and-sour sauce come from?: Calque of Chinese 甜酸醬 /甜酸酱 (tiánsuānjiàng, literally “sweet sour sauce”).

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