tomato-saucy
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.85 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
With tomato sauce.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of tomato sauce.
Example Sentences
- "Up rises that sweet and tantalizing fragrance—the hot, spicy aroma of Heinz baked beans—slowly browned in heat flooded ovens. Flavor baked into them—flavor baked through and through them—from tender, golden skin to juicy, tomato-saucy center."
- "Our Franks in Blankets—an outdoor treat loaded with small-fry appeal—owe their unusual zest to pickle-sweet, tomato-saucy Heinz Hamburger Relish . . ."
- "Cheese-filled battered eggplant rolls with a tomato-saucy flair."
- "Max: I ordered a triple decker sandwich of cold cuts, not this tomato-saucy concoction!"
- "LeMat grinned: a rather disgusting cheesy-and-tomato-saucy sight."
- "I’ve already braved a completely (thankfully) unconvincing Jack the Ripper scene in Madame T’s Chamber of Horrors – with Mitre Square and Catherine Eddowes’ tomato-saucy body shifted half a mile to right outside the Ten Bells pub – and it would never do to get my historical facts too confused with fiction."
Etymology
From tomato sauce + -y.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more tomato-saucy (comparative)
most tomato-saucy (superlative)
tomato sauce-y (alternative)
tomato saucey (alternative)
tomato-saucey (alternative)
tomato saucy (alternative)