hoisin sauce

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   a thick sweet and pungent Chinese condiment

   Synonymsduck sauce

   Broadercondiment

Questions about hoisin sauce

What does hoisin sauce mean?

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

What is another word for hoisin sauce?

Close synonyms include duck 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 hoisin sauce a common word?

hoisin 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.