A puree made from cooked apples, often sweetened and spiced, commonly served as a side dish or dessert. In slang, nonsense or foolish talk.
Compound word from 'apple' (Old English 'æppel') and 'sauce' (Old French 'sause' from Latin 'salsa'). The literal meaning dates to colonial America, while the slang meaning 'nonsense' emerged in 1920s American English, possibly from the soft, mushy texture suggesting 'soft' thinking.
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