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seafood sauce

seafood sauce

2.5
A tangy sauce to eat with seafood like shrimp and oysters
  • noun
  • /ˈsiːfʊd sɔːs/
  • US
translation icon : salsa de mariscos
  • For dinner, we enjoyed salmon with a homemade seafood sauce made from ketchup and lemon juice.

Examples

  • I love seafood sauce on my shrimp.

  • Please bring some extra seafood sauce for the oysters.

  • A classic seafood sauce combines ketchup, horseradish, and a squeeze of lemon.

  • She dipped the shrimp into the seafood sauce before taking a bite.

  • Can you pass the seafood sauce?

  • The chef prepared a delicious seafood sauce to serve with the grilled shrimp.

  • She dipped her crab cakes into the tangy seafood sauce that complemented the dish perfectly.

Synonyms

cocktail sauce
vsseafood sauce
  • US
4 2.0

A spicy red sauce made from ketchup, horseradish, and lemon juice, served with seafood

is tangy rather than hot and focuses on lemon sharpness

How Tangy

seafood sauce
  • US
2.5
tartar sauce
7 1.3

Surface Forms

seafood sauce singular
seafood sauces plural

Morphology

seafood + sauce

The meaning (a sauce intended for or served with seafood) is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents 'seafood' (edible marine animals) + 'sauce' (a condiment). This noun+noun compound follows a common and cross-linguistically transparent naming pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Seafood sauce is a simple name made by joining seafood and sauce: cooks mixed tangy ingredients like ketchup, horseradish and lemon to make a sauce that would 'go with' fish and shellfish. That's why the phrase means 'a tangy sauce served with seafood'.