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Definition: Saucy |
SaucyAdjective1. Characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality; "a certain irreverent gaiety and ease of manner". 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "saucy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Note: Saucy \Sau"cy\, adjective. [Comparative Saucier; superlative Sauciest.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Saucy Rakish, irresistible; or rather that care-for-nobody, jaunty, daring behaviour which has won for many of our regiments the term as a compliment. It is also applied metaphorically to some inanimate things, as "saucy waves," which dare attack the very moon; the "saucy world," which dares defy the very gods; the "saucy mountains," "winds," "wit," and so on. "But still the little petrel was saucy as the waves." Eliza Cook: The Young Marimers stanza 7. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang | Adjective. Source: Comes from the word sauce, because it is runny and smooth. Definition: Very nice looking; hair done,nice clothes. Context: Used at dinners or private parties when people of importance are present. Only used between players, and never said to an elder's face. Social Source: Football players. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
| Adj. Source: "Saucy"'s literally meaning is "with sauce". The reasoning is that with sauce, a certain food is more pleasing to taste and is positive. Definition: Good, impressive. Context: It is used when one wants to describe something that is excellent. Social Source: Ebonic using persons. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
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Synonyms: SaucySynonyms: fresh (adj), impertinent (adj), impudent (adj), irreverent (adj), overbold (adj), pert (adj), sassy (adj), smart (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discourtesy | Uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious; cool; pert, forward, obtrusive, impudent, rude, saucy, precocious. |
Insolence | Flippant, pert, fresh, cavalier, saucy, forward, impertinent, malapert. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Saucy |
| English words defined with "saucy": Cocket ♦ Dicacious ♦ League offensive and defensive ♦ Malapert, mischievous ♦ naughty ♦ Procacious ♦ sauce, Saucebox, Spalt ♦ To sell bargains. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "saucy": Carmelite ♦ Gogmagog Hill ♦ Marry Come Up! ♦ Old Boots. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "saucy": Saucebox. (references) |
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Screenplays | Shut up you saucy old git. (Only Fools and Horses; writing credit: John Sullivan) A saucy puppet show (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) Don't get saucy with me, Bernaise (History of the World: Part I; writing credit: Mel Brooks) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Saucy Aussie (1963) Saucy Sausages (1929) | |
Song Titles | Saucy Sailor (performing artist: Steeleye Span) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A.H. Woods presents Valeska Suratt in the swift, smart & saucy play, The girl with the whooping cough the latest Paris sensation : by Stanislaus Stange. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Benjamin Franklin | Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel. As Death was a-rising out one day, Across Mount Camel he took his way, Where he met a mendicant monk, Some three or four quarters drunk, With a holy leer and a pious grin, Ragged and fat and as saucy as sin, Who held out his hands and cried: "Give, give in Charity's name, I pray. Give in the name of the Church. O give, Give that her holy sons may live!" And Death replied, Smiling long and wide: "I'll give, holy father, I'll give thee -- a ride." With a rattle and bang Of his bones, he sprang From his famous Pale Horse, with his spear; By the neck and the foot Seized the fellow, and put Him astride with his face to the rear. The Monarch laughed loud with a sound that fell Like clods on the coffin's sounding shell: "Ho, ho! A beggar on horseback, they say, Will ride to the devil!" -- and thump Fell the flat of his dart on the rump Of the charger, which galloped away. Faster and faster and faster it flew, Till the rocks and the flocks and the trees that grew By the road were dim and blended and blue To the wild, wild eyes Of the rider -- in size Resembling a couple of blackberry pies. Death laughed again, as a tomb might laugh At a burial service spoiled, And the mourners' intentions foiled By the body erecting Its head and objecting To further proceedings in its behalf. Many a year and many a day Have passed since these events away. The monk has long been a dusty corse, And Death has never recovered his horse. For the friar got hold of its tail, And steered it within the pale Of the monastery gray, Where the beast was stabled and fed With barley and oil and bread Till fatter it grew than the fattest friar, And so in due course was appointed Prior. G.J. |
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| "Saucy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Saucy" is used about 98 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 98 | 33,072 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "saucy": a saucy bit ♦ saucy little hat. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "saucy": saucy-face. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
saucy | 56 | burbank saucy | 3 |
saucy story | 12 | saucy jack | 3 |
ryan saucy | 10 | saucy stocking | 3 |
doll saucy walker | 8 | saucy slut | 3 |
monkey saucy | 7 | saucy wife | 3 |
saucy walker | 7 | burbank home saucy | 2 |
saucy susan | 5 | girl saucy | 2 |
love saucy short story | 5 | bistro saucy | 2 |
pic saucy | 4 | card post saucy | 2 |
lady saucy | 4 | jack saucy space vixen | 2 |
saucy pantie | 4 | pic saucy wife | 2 |
cake saucy | 4 | picture saucy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "saucy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | prej kokete, i paturp (cheeky, conscienceless, impertinent, impudent, insolent, lubricious, shameless, unashamed, unblushing), i pacipë (arrogant, audacious, barefaced, brassy, brazen, brazen faced, bumptious, cheeky, contumelious, coxy, immodest, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, perky, pert, shameless, unblushing), i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, erect, fresh, frisky, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, keen, larky, live, lively, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, perky, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, raw, red blooded, skittish, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid). (various references) | |
Arabic | وقح (abrasive, barefaced, blatant, bold, brazen, cool, flippant, hardy, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, off hand, overbold, pert, presuming, presumptuous, rascal, rude, sassy, scamp, shameless, smart), أنيق (bijou, chic, classy, coxcomb, dainty, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressy, elegant, exclusive, fine, gallant, genteel, good looking, gracious, jaunty, ladylike, mincing, natty, neat, nice, perky, personable, posh, presentable, rich, seemly, sharp, smart, smug, sophisticated, spick and span, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty, spruce, stylish, suave, swagger, swell, tailor made, taut, tidy, tight, trim, well groomed), بذئ (abusive, blue, broad, curious, salacious, scurrilous, smutty, spicy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шик (chic, classy, dressy, pansy, pert, posh, rakish, snazzy, swell, swish), весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome), нахален (arrogant, cheeky, contumelious, flip, forward, huffish, impudent, insolent, jumped-up, malapert, nervy, obtrusive, offensive, perky, presuming, sassy, snotty), моден (chic, current, fashionable, genteel, go, high-toned, in, mainstream, mod, modern, modish, new, newfangled, nifty, rakish, smart, stylish, swanky, swell, swinging, swish), жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, pregnant, quick, racy, rattling, round, sharp, skittish, snappy, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy), елегантен (classy, dashing, debonair, doggy, dressy, elegant, feat, fine, genteel, graceful, jimp, mod, nifty, plush, plushy, posh, rakish, sharp, silk stocking, smart, snappy, stylish, swell, swish, tasty), безочлив (assured, audacious, brash, brazenfaced, graceless, immodest, impertinent, impudent, unabashed, unashamed), дързък (arrogant, assuming, audacious, cheeky, contumelious, cool, daring, defiant, foolhardy, malapert, nervy, overbold, reckless, sassy, venturesome). (various references) | |
Chinese | 俏皮 . (various references) | |
Czech | vyzývavý (defiant, provocative), koketní (coquettish, flirty), hubatý (cheeky), drzý (audacious, barefaced, bold, brash, brazen, bumptious, cheeky, chesty, cool, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, pert, smart, unbridled). (various references) | |
Finnish | nenäkäs (impertinent, pert). (various references) | |
French | parure, impertinent (sassy), grivois (salacious), déluré, crânement, coquin, chic. (various references) | |
German | frech (barefaced, bold, brassy, brazen, cheekily, cheeky, cocky, fresh, impertinent, impudent, impudently, insolent, insultingly, naughtily, naughty, nervy, perkily, ribald, rude, sassy, saucily, unblushingly, wicked), naseweis (cheeky, forward, fresh, inquisitive, nosey, nosy, precocious), keck (bold, cheeky, perkily, perky, pert, pertly). (various references) | |
Greek | ξετσίπωτος (cheeky, impudent, shameless), αγενήσ (caddish, coarse, discourteous, heel, ignoble, impolite, indelicate, mannerless, rude, uncivil, uncourteous, underbred, ungracious, unladylike, unmannered, unmannerly), αναιδήσ (audacious, barefaced, brassy, cheeky, cocky, fresh, immodest, impudence, impudent, squirt), αναιδής (cheeky, insolent), αυθάδησ (arrogant, audacious, brash, brazen, flippant, forward, impertinent, insolent, jackanapes, pert, presumer, presumptuous, sassy), αλαζών (arrogant, haughty, presumer, stuck up, uppish), τσαχπίνικοσ (coquettish, roguish). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szemtelen (arrogant, audacious, be insolent, brash, brassy, brazen, cheeky, contemptuous, immodest, impertinent, impudent, insolent, leer, malapert, naughty, perky, pert, presumptuous, sassy, shameless, unblushing), pimasz (brash, brassy, brazen, cheeky, cocky, forward, hubristic, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, sassy, saucy bit), pikánsan sikkes (sassy), feleselő (sassy), elegáns (cheesy, doggish, dressy, elegant, fashionable, flossy, graceful, light, natty, nifty, Nobby, posh, primp, sassy, smart, snappy, spicy, spiffing, spiffy, spruce, stylish, swell, swish, tacky, tricksy, upscale). (various references) | |
Italian | sfacciato (barefaced, blatant, bold, brazen, cheeky, cool, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, jackanapes, overbold, sassy), saccente (know all, prig, smatterer), impertinente (brazen, flippant, impertinent, naughty, perky, pert, rude), gioielli (emblazonment, emblazonments, finery, jewellery, jewelry, neat). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "意気 (audacious, brazen, cheeky, conceit, impertinent), 小面憎い (cheeky, pert). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なまいき (audacious, brazen, cheeky, conceit, impertinent), "づらにくい (cheeky, pert). (various references) | |
Manx | perkinagh (interfering, loquacious, officious, pragmatical, prating), brynt (blunt, blunt as person, outspoken), assagagh (ferretlike, pert, stoatlike). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aucysay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | insolente (arrogant, cockish, contemptuous, contumelious, flip, huffy, immodest, impertinent, insolent, lingerer, lord-like, malapert, pert, rough, rude, thrasonical, uppity), impertinente (arrogant, brash, cantankerous, currish, impertinent, mumpish, peevish, pernickety, pettish, petulant, querulous, rat, ratty, snappish, snappy, techy, testy, tetchy), descarado (barefaced, brass, brazen, cheeky, cool, impudent, nervy, pert, quean, shameless, unabashed, unblushing), atrevido (audacious, boastful, bold, cheeky, daring, gay, impertinent, insolent, malapert, pert, presumptuous, pushing, uppity, wanton, waspish). (various references) | |
Romanian | voios (cheerful, cheerfully, exhilarated, festival, genial, genially, glad, gleeful, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, mellow, merrily, merry, mirthful), vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, sprightly, tails up, wanton), obraznic (audacious, bad, barefaced, bold, boldly, brazenly, cheekily, cheeky, cocky, contemptuous, cool, disobedient, flippant, forward, fresh, graceless, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nasty, naughty, nervy, obtrusive, perky, pert, pertly, presumptuous, provocative, rebellious, sauce box, unruly, untoward, uppish), neruşinat (barefaced, bold, brassy, brazen faced, cheeky, frontless, graceless, impudent, indecent, nervy, outrageous, ribald, shameless, unscrupulous), dârz (adamant, audacious, daring, gamy, resistant, steadfast, stout, stoutly, strong-minded, stubborn, unflinching), cochet (arch, archly, coquettish, demurely, flirtatious, smartly, stylish). (various references) | |
Russian | дерзкий (audacious, bold, brash, cheeky, cocky, contumelious, cool, daring, defiant, flippant, forward, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, malapert, perky, pert, petulant, presumptuous, reckless, sassy, tossy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prgav (grumpy, spitfire), drzak (audacious, be insolent, brash, brazenfaced, cheeky, daring, flip, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, overbold, pert, presuming, presumptuous, temerarious, venturesome), bezobrazan (bold, brazenfaced, contumelious, insolent, malapert, nervy, pert). (various references) | |
Spanish | pícaro (crafty, imp, jester, naughty, picaroon, rascal, rascally, rogue, roguish, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, scamp, scapegrace, street smart, tinker), fresco (brisk, cheeky, cool, crisp, familiar, forward, fresco, fresh, fresh air, green, impudent person, new, recent, sassy, saucebox, sweet, warm, wet), deslenguado (impertinent, insolent, sassy), descarado (barefaced, blatant, bold, bold-faced, bounder, brash, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, cheeky, forward, free, fresh, hussy, impertinent, impudent, nervy, overbold, perky, sassy). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppkäftig (brazen, impertinent, lippy, rude), näsvis (flippant, forward, impertinent, impudent, pert). (various references) | |
Thai | จองหอง. (various references) | |
Turkish | sulu (aqueous, enhydrous, hydrated, hydrous, juicy, lush, moist, Pappy, ripe, runny, sassy, saucily, sloppy, slushy, smarmy, soft, soupy, succulent, washy, watery, weak, wet), sırnaşık (brash, brassy, importunate, intrusive, obtrusive, pushful, pushing, sassy, smarmy), yüzsüz (bare faced, barefaced, bold-faced, brash, brassy, brazenfaced, cheeky, conscience-proof, fresh, gay, hard bitten, hard boiled, hard-nosed, Hardy, impudent, nervy, pushful, pushing, ribald, shameless, unabashed, unashamed, unblushing), modaya uygun (a la mode, chic, fashionable, groovy, hip, in style, in the groove, in the ton, in vogue, modish, snazzy, stylish, tonish), cıvık (juicy, runny, sloppy, soft), şımarık (perky, pert, sassy, spoilt, wayward), şık (alternative, chic, choice, classy, dandyish, dapper, dashing, doggy, dressy, elegant, fashionable, flash, go-go, in the ton, jaunty, mod, nifty, posh, rakish, sharp, sleek, smart, smooth, smug, snappy, snazzy, spicy, spiffing, spiffy, sporty, streamlined, stylish, swagger, swanky, swell, swish, thoroughbred, tidy, tonish, trig, up-market). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стильний (cheesy, doggish, nifty, scrumptious, stylish, trendy), меткий (arch, artful, brisk, canny, nimble), зухвалий (aggressive, audacious, barefaced, bold, bold-faced, brazen faced, cheeky, cocksy, cocky, coxy, daring, flip, immodest, impertinent, insolent, necky, overbearing, perky, pert, provocative, provocatory, pushing, rousing, wise). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lanh lợi; bảnh, hỗn xược (brash, cheeky, contumelious, impudent), bốp (pop). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Saucy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: astucci, eaukay, Osadchy, saaach, saec, Saguy, sarcy, Saruca, Satucc, sauc, saucey, sauch, sauk, sauly, sausy, sauty, seccy, suacy, suavy, sucy, suky, Szuca, zacy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "saucy" (pronounced sô"sē) |
| 3 | -ô" s ē | bossy, Flossie, glossy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: yucas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-s-u-y" | |
-1 letter: cays, yuca. | |
-2 letters: ays, cay, sac, sau, say. | |
-3 letters: as, ay, us, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-s-u-y" | |
+1 letter: causey, cayuse, yuccas. | |
+2 letters: causeys, cayuses, cullays, eustacy, saucily. | |
+3 letters: buybacks, casually, casualty, causally, causeway, custardy, cutaways, dactylus, lacqueys, pussycat. | |
+4 letters: ayahuasca, buckayros, buoyances, callously, calyculus, carryouts, casuistry, causality, causeways, customary, eucalypts, excusably, gunnysack, hypocaust, musically, picayunes, pussycats, raucously, recusancy, sanctuary, secularly, sequacity, sluiceway, staunchly, subacidly, subagency, supremacy, surrogacy, vacuously. | |
+5 letters: accursedly, accusatory, accusingly, ayahuascas, buckyballs, buoyancies, candytufts, canorously, captiously, causewayed, causticity, cautiously, coryphaeus, cotylosaur, courtyards, cystinuria, eucalyptus, eucaryotes, excusatory, factiously, glycosuria, graciously, gunnysacks, hydraulics, hypocausts, muscularly, musicality, musicianly, osculatory, pelycosaur, picayunish, postulancy, rustically, scabrously, secularity, sluiceways, spaciously, specularly, squirarchy, subacutely, subjacency, subtenancy, subvocally, suicidally, surgically, syncarpous, unchastely, unchastity, unsociably, unsocially. | |
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