gravy
A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
Other meanings
A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.
A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce.
A kind of
- sauce
Related words
- baby gravy
- gravyless
- gravylike
- biscuits and gravy
- bull gravy
- bulldog gravy
- country gravy
- good gravy
- gravy boat
- gravy train
- gravy-eyed
- Gravy SEAL
Word history
From Middle English "gravey".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “gravy” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.