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The Collaborative International Dictionary
applesauce

applesauce \applesauce\ n.

  1. 1 puree of stewed apples usually sweetened and spiced.

    Syn: apple sauce

  2. nonsensical talk or writing.

    Syn: folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
applesauce

by 1739, American English, from apple + sauce. Slang meaning "nonsense" is attested from 1921 and was noted as a vogue word early 1920s. Mencken credits it to cartoonist T.A. ("Tad") Dorgan. DAS suggests the word was thus used because applesauce was cheap fare served in boardinghouses.

Wiktionary
applesauce

interj. (context slang US dated English) nonsense! n. 1 (context US English) apple sauce. 2 (context slang US dated 1920s English) nonsense, balderdash, bunk, piffle.

WordNet
applesauce
  1. n. puree of stewed apples usually sweetened and spiced [syn: apple sauce]

  2. nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, codswallop]

Wikipedia
Applesauce (film)

Applesauce is a 2015 horror comedy film written and directed by Onur Tukel. The film stars Tukel, Max Casella, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Jennifer Prediger, and Dylan Baker.

Usage examples of "applesauce".

Gwen had been crouching in front of the high chair, trying without much success to coax some applesauce into Tess.

Sunny picks up an applesauce cup and opens it, then opens a bag of chips.

I mean that time at the table when I threw some applesauce and the old man grabbed me and put my plate on the floor in the corner, if you want to behave like a dog you can eat like a dog does, I mean I was his dog till he got his own fucking dogs.

Katrina was in the process of labeling another batch of jarred applesauce when Caleb walked into the kitchen.

He accumulated a carton of corn flakes with very pukey dehydrated peach slices in the box, a can of pink applesauce that resembled tree moss from fairyland, and a package of kosher hot dogs.

The startling obscenities which occur in Applesauce are only possible because they are expressed in doubles entendres which imply a common background in the audience.

Not a damn thing happens down here except copping applesauce and Dictaphones from the Air Force base.

September were for making applesauce, apple jelly, and putting up pears.

August and September were for making applesauce, apple jelly, and putting up pears.

The bananas might be a little brown, but they made wonderful banana bread and the apples were just fine for applesauce.

I could see serving plates stacked high with soft white bread, bowls of applesauce sprinkled with cinnamon, salads of iceberg lettuce that glistened with bottled dressing.

Jim Bob's proposed menu for this evening consists of spaghetti, lima beans, and applesauce.

Millie noticed that there was some applesauce that had been put up by someone last fall, the Mason jar had the hand written date on the top.

He ordered a Spanish omelet with cottage cheese instead of french fries, a dish of applesauce, and told the waitress to hold the toast.

At the market I bought _Tafelspitz_, _Kren_, applesauce, the makings for tartar sauce.