saucer
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- noun
- /ˈsɔːsər/
:
platillo
- If he had a visitor, I brought out an extra cup and saucer and a whole pile of biscuits.
- cup and saucer
You serve them from the saucer that overflows around your cup.
- You serve them from the saucer that overflows around your cup.
- It's so annoying to have to use saucers that do not match your plants.
- And so it does really pay to have some, some some saucers underneath your plants.
- And I just put some in a little saucer.
- You know what they do is they they, if you have a little cup with a saucer, that's what it's supposed to look like.
- When Dusty Springfield got upset, she would go out to the hallway and throw cups and saucers at the stage door.
Examples
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And could I have a saucer of milk for my cat?
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Fiona set down a small tray containing a cup, a saucer, and a plate of biscuits.
Fiction book (1992) -
Every cup and saucer has to be right.
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I caught it and put it on a saucer she had in front of her.
Fiction book (1993) -
I put the cup and saucer down on the brass tray before me.
Fiction book (1993) -
She'd pour her coffee into the saucer, then pour it back into the cup.
Fiction book (1991) -
Coffee was served in streamlined Japanese blue cups with white saucers made by Miya.
Academic text (2016) -
I put the kettle on and set out three cups and saucers, cream and sugar, spoons.
Fiction book (1992) -
Excuse the mismatched saucers.
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Fiona set down a small tray containing a cup, a saucer, and a plate of biscuits.
Synonyms
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A shallow round container used for holding or serving food
Compounds
- Archaic
15
5.6
A round flat object in the sky that people think comes from another planet
A small tree like a garden shrub with large pink to purple open flowers in spring
How Small
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Saucer comes from sauce + -er and first meant a 'small dish for sauce'. So a saucer became the little plate you put under a cup to catch drips.