Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a saucy manner; pertly; impudently; with impertinent boldness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a saucy manner; impudently; with impertinent boldness.
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- adverb In a
saucy manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an impudent or impertinent manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Gregory came round the corner of the building from the dining-room, and the big girl who was crouching before Clementina, and who boasted that she was not afraid of the student, called saucily to him, "Come here, a minute, Mr. Gregory," and as he approached, she tilted aside, to let him see Clementina's slippers.
Ragged Lady — Volume 1 William Dean Howells 1878
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Gregory came round the corner of the building from the dining-room, and the big girl who was crouching before Clementina, and who boasted that she was not afraid of the student, called saucily to him, "Come here, a minute, Mr. Gregory," and as he approached, she tilted aside, to let him see Clementina's slippers.
Ragged Lady — Complete William Dean Howells 1878
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Venus, "saucily," or Helen of Troy, I most closely resemble? or am I
Molly Bawn Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
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"Sarah, Sarah Aaron," saucily; "I told you that three times before.
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Grahame saucily plays a waitress here, vying for the affections of her boyfriend (the perpetually annoying Marshall Thompson) and married restauranteur Phillip Dorn.
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Mother's bottom thrusts out saucily and she smiles broadly.
Domestic Particulars at the House on Ivandell Barry Basden 2011
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The most striking thing about the new arrival was its proud and noble bearing – it stood up straight, rather than oozing saucily outwards across the plate like the stuff which came out of the college kitchen.
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They speak still of winter, but also already of spring; they speak of the past, but also saucily and merrily of the new.
Commonplace 2010
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To some extent, he is your standard dame who saucily announces "I'm Sarah the Cook; my dumplings are the talk of the town."
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Grahame saucily plays a waitress here, vying for the affections of her boyfriend (the perpetually annoying Marshall Thompson) and married restauranteur Phillip Dorn.
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