duck sauce

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   a thick sweet and pungent Chinese condiment

   Synonymshoisin sauce

   Broadercondiment

Questions about duck sauce

What does duck sauce mean?

duck sauce means "a thick sweet and pungent Chinese condiment".

What is another word for duck sauce?

Close synonyms include hoisin sauce. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is duck sauce a common word?

duck sauce is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.