saucer
/ˈsɔsɚ/ verb C2- To pour (tea, etc.) from the cup into the saucer in order to cool it before drinking.
- Of the eyes: to become large and round.
He/she/it saucers · Past saucered · Past participle saucered · -ing form saucering
Verb forms
- Base form
- saucer
- He/she/it
- saucers
- Past
- saucered
- Past participle
- saucered
- -ing form
- saucering
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As he spoke he turned the contents of the wine glass into a saucer and placed it in front of the terrier, who speedily licked it dry.
Not until Anne had finished her saucer of blue plums did Marilla say:
“Dinah’ll miss me very much to-night, I should think!” (Dinah was the cat.) “I hope they’ll remember her saucer of milk at tea-time.
“Well, look at this!” He took up a small saucer of milk which stood on the top of it.
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