roast vs saucier

roast

noun
  • A cut of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted. 

  • The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted. 

  • An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted. 

  • A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes. 

  • A social event at which food is roasted and eaten. 

  • A creative insult as a response to something someone said. 

  • A meal consisting of roast foods. 

verb
  • To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance. 

  • To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc. 

  • To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat. 

  • To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn. 

  • To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores. 

  • To admonish someone vigorously. 

  • To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine. 

adj
  • Having been cooked by roasting. 

  • Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized. 

saucier

noun
  • A bowl-shaped pan used for sauces and other cookery. 

  • sauce boat (a pitcher, dish, or, bowl, used to serve sauce) 

  • In a large professional kitchen, a cook responsible for preparing sauces and for sauteing foods on demand. 

  • sauce pan (a pan used to cook up a sauce) 

How often have the words roast and saucier occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )