applesauce

applesauce
applesauce (n.) by 1739, American English, from APPLE (Cf. apple) + SAUCE (Cf. sauce). Slang meaning "nonsense" is attested from 1921 and was noted as a vogue word early 1920s. Mencken credits it to cartoonist T.A. ("Tad") Dorgan. DAS suggests the word was thus used because applesauce was cheap fare served in boardinghouses.

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