Meanings
nounhunger sauce (uncountable)
- idiomaticrareuncountableThe condition of being hungry, which makes food more enjoyable.
As for our meals, each man was a capital cook; everything was seasoned with hunger sauce; the tea was strong enough to float a broadaxe, and the watchword was "Everything goes."
1894, The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature (page 575)
Origin
From hunger is the best sauce or related phrases.
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hunger sauce. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hunger%20sauce
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