applesauce
See also: apple-sauce and apple sauce
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- apple sauce (UK)
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applesauce (countable and uncountable, plural applesauces)
- (American spelling) Alternative spelling of apple sauce.
- 1955, Beverly Cleary, Beezus and Ramona, page 101:
- Because Mother had been so busy making applesauce, dinner was a little late that night.
- (slang, US, dated, 1920s) Nonsense, balderdash, bunk, piffle.
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- (nonsense): codswallop, hooey, malarkey; see also Thesaurus:nonsense
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apple sauce — see apple sauce
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applesauce!
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nonsense
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