gravy

plural gravies

1. A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
   1. countableuncountableusuallyA dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.

      A roast dinner isn't complete without gravy.

   2. Southern UScountableuncountableusuallyA pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce.

      There are few foods more Southern than biscuits and gravy.

2. uncountableusuallychiefly Italian-AmericanSauce used for pasta.
3. IndiaSingaporeuncountableusuallyCurry sauce.

   Return flaked fish to curry gravy and bring to the boil.

   2007, Geok Boi Lee, Classic Asian Noodles, Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, page 158

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   With this the hostess poured two or three spoonfuls of the gravy of the curry on to the rice opposite to each person.

   1879, The Sunday at Home, volume 26, page 342

   Now it seems that Pa Senik was a little deaf. Awang noticed that his father-in-law sometimes poured the gravy of his curry on his rice and that sometimes he sucked it up.

   1906, Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, "Pa Senik and his Son-in-Law Awang", Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, page 59-60

   This is strained with a piece of cloth or a strainer and the green liquid forms the gravy of the curry.

   1992, Khammān Khonkhai, The Teachers of Mad Dog Swamp

4. informaluncountableusuallyUnearned gain; extra benefit.

   The first thousand tickets and the concessions cover the venue and the band. The rest is gravy.

present singular third person gravies · participle present gravying · participle past gravied · past gravied

1. To make gravy.

   Dola and another woman were so busy frying and grilling and buttering and gravying that they didn't even notice Bruce's existence.

   2013, Ivan Doig, Bucking the Sun, page 103

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   I mean simply this — that the process of canning and preserving or of gravying and saucing frequently removes the most vitally essential acids and salts […]

   1907, Edmond Raymond Moras, Autology (Study Thyself) and Autopathy (Cure Thyself), page 67