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saucy

[ saw-see ]

adjective

, sau·ci·er, sau·ci·est.
  1. impertinent; insolent:

    a saucy remark; a saucy child.

    Synonyms: brazen, fresh, impudent, rude

  2. pert; boldly smart:

    a saucy little hat for Easter.

    Synonyms: jaunty



saucy

/ ˈsɔːsɪ /

adjective

  1. impertinent
  2. pert; jaunty

    a saucy hat



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Derived Forms

  • ˈsaucily, adverb
  • ˈsauciness, noun

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Other Words From

  • sauci·ly adverb
  • sauci·ness noun
  • over·saucy adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of saucy1

First recorded in 1500–10; sauce + -y 1

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Example Sentences

Add the water and cook, mashing the beans a bit with a wooden spoon, until most of the water has evaporated or been absorbed but the mixture remains a bit saucy, 3 to 4 minutes.

The always fun Jasmine Guillory serves up another saucy tale.

“Bridgerton,” Netflix’s saucy new Shondaland period drama, is a fun and popular escape — one that you might binge your way through in a few days or even hours.

This Instant Pot beef stew is rich, hearty and ready in 45 minutesInstant Pot spaghetti delivers a saucy dose of nostalgia, with little hands-on effort

One little package will dress up five home-cooked meals, so you can count on a month of flavor with just one round of saucy packets.

And she was appropriately saucy, especially when thanking her co-star Sally Hawkins.

The animated video clip accompanying the leak of “Gentleman” hints that some saucy booty shaking will be involved.

The saucy and self-possessed singer had kicked her cocaine drug habit and hired a new manager, Lupe De Leon.

The now-former CIA director and his alleged mistress, Paula Broadwell, often wrote each other saucy email messages.

The woman is a force of nature: tough, spirited, saucy, straight-talking, fierce.

She was saucy the next, moving her head up and down, making "eyes" at Robert and making "mouths" at Beaudelet.

Sues saucy, self-congratulatory toss of the head 14 stung her so that she could have cried out.

But I could not have such saucy lambs about the house any longer: so they were driven to the meadow with the rest of the flock.

Synaptic cells summed and integrated, cancelled and compared and with saucy assurance sent the findings on toward Cumulative.

Then our captain—wild, saucy Peg Sickle—bounded up with the cry, 'Crown the captain!'

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