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Saucy definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SAU'CY, a. [from sauce; L. salsus, salt or salted. The use of this word leads to the primary sense of salt, which must be shooting forward, penetrating, pungent, for boldness is a shooting forward.]
1. Impudent; bold to excess; rude; transgressing the rules of decorum; treating superiors with contempt. It expresses more than pert; as a saucy boy; a saucy fellow.
2. Expressive of impudence; as a saucy eye; saucy looks.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality; "a certain irreverent gaiety and ease of manner" [syn: impertinent, irreverent, pert, saucy]
2: improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me!" [syn: fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, smart, saucy, sassy, wise]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (saucier; -est) Date: 1508 1. served with or having the consistency of sauce 2. a. impertinently bold and impudent b. amusingly forward and flippant ; irrepressible 3. smart, trim <a saucy little hat> • saucily adverb • sauciness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (saucier, sauciest) 1 impudent, cheeky. 2 colloq. smart-looking (a saucy hat). 3 colloq. smutty, suggestive. Derivatives: saucily adv. sauciness n. Etymology: earlier sense 'savoury', f. SAUCE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Saucy Sau"cy, a. [Compar. Saucier; superl. Sauciest.] [From Sauce.] 1. Showing impertinent boldness or pertness; transgressing the rules of decorum; treating superiors with contempt; impudent; insolent; as, a saucy fellow. Am I not protector, saucy priest? --Shak. 2. Expressive of, or characterized by, impudence; impertinent; as, a saucy eye; saucy looks. We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs. --Shak. Syn: Impudent; insolent; impertinent; rude.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(saucier, sauciest) Someone or something that is saucy refers to sex in a light-hearted, amusing way. ...a saucy joke. = cheeky ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Impertinent, impudent, pert, insolent, cavalier, rude, forward, bold, flippant, malapert, disrespectful, petulant.

Moby Thesaurus

arch, arrogant, audacious, bantam, biggety, bluff, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, bumptious, challenging, cheeky, chutzpadik, cocky, combative, contemptuous, contumelious, crusty, daring, defiant, defying, derisive, disdainful, disregardful, disrespectful, facy, flip, flippant, fresh, frivolous, gally, gratuitous, greatly daring, impertinent, impudent, insolent, intrusive, light-minded, malapert, meddlesome, nervy, obtrusive, pert, procacious, regardless of consequences, rude, sassy, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, uncalled-for, volatile, wise, wise-ass