Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: gravy
IPA transcription: [ɡɹ'eɪvi]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: boom, bonanza, gold_rush, gravy, godsend, manna_from_heaven, windfall, bunce
    Meaning: 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"
  • Synonyms: gravy, pan_gravy
    Meaning: the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added
  • Synonyms: gravy
    Meaning: a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats
Usage examples
  • Thicken the gravy and turn it over the whole.
  • Serve with a browned veal gravy and sliced lemon.
  • Take cold meat and gravy and stew together with onion.
  • Serve with English roast-beef, and pour over the gravy.
  • Simmer very slowly until the gravy is all absorbed, shaking the pan occasionally.
  • "I smell roast beef cooking," he mumbled--"underdone roast beef--with brown gravy over it."
  • It, too, had an affinity for its own gravy and hid itself modestly under an avalanche of mashed potatoes.
  • Cook a pint or less of macaroni in well salted water; drain and put into a stew pan, with a little good gravy.
  • When done, take it up, and thicken the gravy with a little flour and water, and put in a small piece of butter.
  • Drain and place in a stew pan with two ounces of butter, one ounce of flour and a pint of well seasoned stock or gravy.