gravy
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- noun
- /ˈɡreɪvi/
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salsa
- I made a rich brown gravy to pour over the mashed potatoes.
- bread with gravy
Although sometimes I don't go for KFC gravy and I go beans.
- Although sometimes I don't go for KFC gravy and I go beans.
- So if you add, if you add starch to a hot gravy, what happens?
- They dunk it in beautiful brown pork gravy.
- But so because they're meant to be sucked in, soaked in biscuits gravy, you know, Yeah.
Examples
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With a piece of bread, he mops up the gravy on his plate.
Fiction book (1993) -
- Take the potatoes and the gravy.
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I just made the gravy with what was left.
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Uh... somebody pass me the gravy, please.
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- Can I have some gravy, please?
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My mother said, "More rice and gravy?" speaking to my father.
Fiction book (1990) -
Biscuits and gravy sound good to me.
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This gravy is absolutely heavenly.
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I made biscuits, gravy, eggs, cheese, a little more gravy.
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This is mashed potatoes topped with gravy, corn, cheese and chicken.
Synonyms
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7.0
A thin sauce made from juices that come out of meat or other cooked food and served with it
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4.5
A thin sauce made from the juices left in a pan after cooking meat
Compounds
How Thick
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gravy comes from an old French word for a 'sauce' made from the juices of cooked meat, so it originally meant the rich liquid you pour over meat to add flavor.