"sweet-and-sour sauce" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sweet-and-sour sauce.wav Forms: sweet-and-sour sauces [plural]
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 甜酸醬 /甜酸酱 (tiánsuānjiàng, literally “sweet sour sauce”). Etymology templates: {{calque|en|zh|甜酸醬||lit=sweet sour sauce}} Calque of Chinese 甜酸醬 /甜酸酱 (tiánsuānjiàng, literally “sweet sour sauce”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} sweet-and-sour sauce (countable and uncountable, plural sweet-and-sour sauces)
  1. (cooking) A sticky sauce used in Chinese cuisine that tastes both sugary and tart. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (sauce in Chinese cuisine that is both sugary and tart): 甜酸醬 /甜酸酱 (tim⁴ syun¹ zoeng³) (Chinese Cantonese), 糖醋醬 /糖醋酱 (tángcùjiàng) (Chinese Mandarin), 酸甜醬 /酸甜酱 (suāntiánjiàng) (Chinese Mandarin), sladkokyselá omáčka (Czech), hapanimeläkastike (Finnish), sauce aigre-douce [feminine] (French), süßsauer Soße [feminine] (German), édes-savanyú mártás (Hungarian), súrsæt sósa [feminine] (Icelandic), ки́сло-сла́дкий со́ус (kíslo-sládkij sóus) [masculine] (Russian), sötsur sås [common-gender] (Swedish)

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