gra·vy

(grā′vē)

n. pl. gra·vies

a. The juices that drip from cooking meat.

b. A sauce made by thickening and seasoning these juices.

2. Slang

a. Money, profit, or benefit easily or illicitly gained.

b. Payment or benefit in excess of what is expected or required.

[Middle English grave, from Old French, possibly a misreading of grane, stew, sauce, from Latin grānātus, having many seeds; see pomegranate.]

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gravy

(ˈɡreɪvɪ)

n, pl -vies

1. (Cookery)

a. the juices that exude from meat during cooking

b. the sauce made by thickening and flavouring such juices

2. slang money or gain acquired with little effort, esp above that needed for ordinary living

3. slang wonderful; excellent: it's all gravy.

[C14: from Old French gravé, of uncertain origin]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

gra•vy

(ˈgreɪ vi)

n., pl. -vies.

1. the fat and juices of cooked meat, often thickened and seasoned and used as a sauce.

2. Slang.

a. profit or money easily, unexpectedly, or illegally obtained.

b. something advantageous or valuable obtained as a benefit beyond what is due or expected.

[1350–1400; < Old French gravé, perhaps misreading of grané (compare grain spice) < Latin granātus full of grains. See grain, -ate¹]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	gravy - a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats sauce - flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food
	2.	gravy - the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added pan gravy juice - the liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue by squeezing or cooking
	3.	gravy - a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line" bunce, godsend, gold rush, manna from heaven, windfall, bonanza, boom happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent - an event that happens

Translations

مَرَقمَرَق اللحْم

omáčkašťáva

sovsskyskysovs

Soße Bratensauce

ζωμός σάλτσα

jugo de la carne salsa

hõlptululihakaste

مرقیخنی

kastikeonnenpotku

sauce sauce au jus jus

umak

szafthúslé

sósa

sugo sugo di carne salsa

グレービーソース

그레이비

iussucus

mērce

šťava

såssky

น้ำที่หยดออกมาจากเนื้อ

et sosuet suyu

nước thịt

肉汁

gravy

[ˈgreɪvɪ]

A. N

1. (Culin) → salsa f de carne, gravy m

2. (US) (= easy money) → dinero m fácil

B. CPD gravy boat N → salsera f
gravy train N (fig) → dinero m fácil
to get on the gravy train → pillar un chollo

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

gravy

[ˈgreɪvi] n → sauce f (au jus de viande)gravy boat n → saucière fgravy train n
to ride the gravy train, to be on the gravy train → avoir une bonne planque

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

gravy

(Cook: = juice) → Fleisch- or Bratensaft m; (= sauce) → Soße f

(inf: = perks) → Spesen pl; (= corrupt money) → Schmiergelder pl (inf); to get on the gravy train → auch ein Stück vom Kuchen abbekommen (inf); to ride on the gravy train → locker Geld machen (inf)

gravy

gravy boat

n → Sauciere f, → Soßenschüssel f

gravy train

n (inf) to climb or get on the gravy → leicht ans große Geld kommen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

gravy

[ˈgreɪvɪ] n (Culin) → sugo dell'arrosto, intingolo della carne

gravy

(ˈgreivi) – plural ˈgravies – noun

(a sauce made from) the juices from meat that is cooking.

gravy

→ مَرَق omáčka sovs Soße σάλτσα jugo de la carne kastike sauce umak sugo di carne グレービーソース 그레이비 jus saus sos do pieczeni molho de carne подливка sky น้ำที่หยดออกมาจากเนื้อ et sosu nước thịt 肉汁

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But he always aided and comforted me when he could, in some way of his own, and he always did so at dinner-time by giving me gravy, if there were any.

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When we gave a dinner at home, we had gravy soup, turbot and lobster-sauce, haunch of mutton, boiled fowls and tongue, lukewarm oyster-patties and sticky curry for side-dishes; wild duck, cabinet-pudding, jelly, cream and tartlets.

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"I smell roast beef cooking," he mumbled-- "underdone roast beef--with brown gravy over it."

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One luckless wight contrived to upset the gravy; and then gravy had to be got up de novo, with due care and formality, Aunt Chloe watching and stirring with dogged precision, answering shortly, to all suggestions of haste, that she "warn't a going to have raw gravy on the table, to help nobody's catchings." One tumbled down with the water, and had to go to the spring for more; and another precipitated the butter into the path of events; and there was from time to time giggling news brought into the kitchen that "Mas'r Haley was mighty oneasy, and that he couldn't sit in his cheer no ways, but was a walkin' and stalkin' to the winders and through the porch."

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But his mother threw down her knitting, and, hurrying after him, took hold of his arm, and said, in a tone of plaintive remonstrance, "Nay, my lad, my lad, thee munna go wi'out thy supper; there's the taters wi' the gravy in 'em, just as thee lik'st 'em.

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The peas and potatoes might have been a bit softer, but we all had good teeth, so that did not matter much: and as for the gravy, it was a poem - a little too rich, perhaps, for a weak stomach, but nutritious.

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Upon these platters he placed two goodly portions of the contents of the pie, thus imparting the unusual interest to the entertainment that each partaker scooped out the inside of his plate, and consumed it with his other fare, besides having the sport of pursuing the clots of congealed gravy over the plain of the table, and successfully taking them into his mouth at last from the blade of his knife, in case of their not first sliding off it.

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"We'll see whether he gives up or not when I take a sharp knife to him," her mother answered; "and as to his looks, a platter full o' gravy makes a sight o' difference with old roosters, and I'll put dumplings round the aidge; they're turrible fillin', though they don't belong with boiled chicken."

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The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat, While the Owl had the dish as its share of the treat.

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She ate noisily, greedily, a little like a wild beast in a menagerie, and after she had finished each course rubbed the plate with pieces of bread till it was white and shining, as if she did not wish to lose a single drop of gravy. They had Camembert cheese, and it disgusted Philip to see that she ate rind and all of the portion that was given her.

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They obeyed at once, and next served a fine large turbot on a silver platter, with drawn gravy poured over it.

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The platter was fairly heaped with a fine stew, smoking hot, with many kinds of vegetables and dumplings and a rich, delicious gravy.

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