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gravy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gravy has 3 senses
- gravy(n = noun.food) Array - a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats; Array is a kind of sauce
- gravy(n = noun.food) pan gravy - the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added; Array is a kind of juice
- gravy(n = noun.event) bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, manna from heaven, windfall - a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line" is a kind of happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent
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gravy, n. [OE. greavie; prob. fr. greaves, graves, the sediment of melted tallow. See Greaves.].
- The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up. [1913 Webster]
- Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
gravy, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a the juices exuding from meat during and after cooking. b a dressing or sauce for food, made from these or from other materials, e.g. stock.
2 sl. unearned or unexpected money.
1 a the juices exuding from meat during and after cooking. b a dressing or sauce for food, made from these or from other materials, e.g. stock.
2 sl. unearned or unexpected money.
Idiom
gravy-boat a boat-shaped vessel for serving gravy. gravy train sl. a source of easy financial benefit.
Etymology
ME, perh. from a misreading as grav{eacute} of OF gran{eacute}, prob. f. grain spice: see GRAIN
THESAURUS
gravy
Colbert, Smitane, Soubise, Trinkgeld, allemande, bonus, bonus system, bounty, bourguignonne, bribe, brown sauce, buried treasure, consideration, cream sauce, discovery, donative, double time, egg sauce, espagnole, fee, find, finding, foundling, fringe benefit, gratuity, grease, honorarium, incentive pay, inducement, lagniappe, largess, liberality, marinara, mole, overtime pay, palm oil, paprika sauce, pepper sauce, perks, perquisite, perquisites, poulette, pourboire, premium, roux, salve, shallot sauce, solatium, something extra, sportula, sweetener, tip, treasure trove, trouvaille, trove, waifs, waifs and strays, windfall, windfall money, windfall profitROGET THESAURUS
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Fluidity
N fluidity, liquidity, liquidness, gaseity, fluid, inelastic fluid, liquid, liquor, lymph, humor, juice, sap, serum, blood, serosity, gravy, rheum, ichor, sanies, chyle, solubility, solubleness, hydrology, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy, ichorous, fluent, liquefied, uncongealed, soluble.
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