Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impertinent or disrespectful, especially in a playful or lively way.
- adjective Attractive or stylish, especially in being sexually alluring.
- adjective Having the consistency of or covered with sauce.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Saucily.
- Full of sauce or impertinence; flippantly bold or impudent in speech or conduct; impertinent; characterized by offensive lightness or disrespect in addressing, treating, or speaking of superiors or elders; impudent; pert.
- Characterized by or expressive of pertness or impudence.
- Presuming; overbearing.
- Wanton; prurient; impure.
- Synonyms and See
impudence .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Showing impertinent boldness or pertness; transgressing the rules of decorum; treating superiors with contempt; impudent; insolent.
- adjective Expressive of, or characterized by, impudence; impertinent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Similar to
sauce ; having the consistency or texture ofsauce . - adjective
Impertinent ordisrespectful , often in a way that is regarded as entertaining or amusing;smart . - adjective
Impudently bold ;pert ;piquant . - adjective Mildly
erotic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective improperly forward or bold
- adjective characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality
Etymologies
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Examples
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IV. iv.23 (III,6) [When saucy trusting of the cozen'd thoughts Defiles the pitchy night!] [W: When Fancy,] This conjecture is truly ingenious, but, I believe, the author of it will himself think it unnecessary, when he recollects that _saucy_ may very properly signify
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Beatrice trots ahead of the pair of lovers, her long braid swinging in saucy rhythm with the horse's mane, as uninterested as her steed in their conversation.
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Is she being "saucy" -- to use one of her favorite words -- by design, perhaps to keep life on the campaign trail from becoming too onerous?
Kerry's Secret Sauce 2008
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Later on, when she was sent to an exclusive school in Boston, she made no friends and established what was to later be known as a saucy, independent and eccentric streak.
Erica Heller: "The Witch of Wall Street," a Cautionary Tale for Tough Times? 2008
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Should you frequent these pages regularly, you will recall saucy Ms. Downtown Lynn challenging The Giant Vermin to a 365 day vanity project featuring one of Blog Guelph's fave hounds - Miss Ryder.
Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites 2008
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Should you frequent these pages regularly, you will recall saucy Ms. Downtown Lynn challenging The Giant Vermin to a 365 day vanity project featuring one of Blog Guelph's fave hounds - Miss Ryder.
Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites 2008
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Photographs show clear, frank eyes and an expression both saucy and penetrating.
The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006
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Photographs show clear, frank eyes and an expression both saucy and penetrating.
The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006
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Foster looked at him earnestly, then turned away, and paced the room twice with the same steady and considerate pace with which he had entered it; then suddenly came back, and extended his hand to Michael Lambourne, saying, “Be not wroth with me, good Mike; I did but try whether thou hadst parted with aught of thine old and honourable frankness, which your enviers and backbiters called saucy impudence.”
Kenilworth 2004
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COOPER: Did Bill O'Reilly, make what Andrea Mackris originally called saucy telephone calls to her?
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