† slapsauce Obs.
[f. slap v.3 + sauce n.]
1. One who is fond of good eating; a greedy or gluttonous person. Also attrib.
| 1573 Tusser Husb. (1878) 188 At dinner and supper the table doth craue good fellowly neighbour good manner to haue. Aduise thee well therefore, ere tongue be too free, or slapsauce be noted too saucie to bee. 1611 Cotgr., Leschard, a lickorous, or sweet-mouthed slapsawce. 1653 Urquhart Rabelais i. xxv, Slapsauce fellows, slabberdegullion druggels, lubbardly lowts. |
2. A slabber-sauce. rare—1.
| 1709 O. Dykes Eng. Prov. & Refl. (ed. 2) 12 Her Chocolate, her Gellies, and her Sweet-meats; or such like liquorish Slap-sawces, which pall the Appetite and disrelish the Palate for the whole Day. |