gravy

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: gra=vy

CIDE DICTIONARY

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.

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 profit

ROGET THESAURUS

gravy

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.