sibber-sauce Obs. exc. dial.
[Perh. ad. L. cibāri-us pertaining to food.]
A sauce; a compound or concoction of this nature. Also fig.
| 1556 Olde Antichrist 132 b, To this use serue..many drinkes and sibber sawces. 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1879) 64 They would neuer go about to coulour their faces with such sibber-sawces. a 1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 588 Which with another sibber-sawce of vain words they haue set before him here again. c 1613 Sir E. Coke in Amos Gt. Oyer Poisoning (1846) 249 The composition of his own sibber sauces. 1868–98 in Yorkshire glossaries (in the form sipper-sauce). |