sarse

sarse

English

Noun

sarse (plural sarses)

1. Alternative form of searce

Verb

sarse (third-person singular simple present sarses, present participle sarsing, simple past and past participle sarsed)

1. Alternative form of searce

Noun

sarse (countable and uncountable, plural sarses)

1. Pronunciation spelling of sauce.
   • 1833, John Neal, The Down-Easters, Volume 1:

     I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse … .

   • 1870, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Story of a Bad Boy:

     "I don't want any of your sarse," said the boy, scowling.

Verb

sarse (third-person singular simple present sarses, present participle sarsing, simple past and past participle sarsed)

1. Pronunciation spelling of sauce.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:

     Well, that ‘ud be imposing, too, on Tellson’s. For you cannot sarse the goose and not the gander.

Anagrams

• Rases, SASER, Sears, arses, rases, rasse, sears

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• saarce, scarce, sarce, sarche, sars, sarss

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Anglo-Norman cerche, *cerce, from Late Latin *circa; see searce for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsars(ə)/

Noun

sarse

1. sieve, searce

Derived terms

• sarsen

Descendants

• English: searce, sarse
• Scots: search

References

• “sārce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.