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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
saucy
adjective
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▪ But in London it brought belly laughs with a bawdy display of music hall humour and saucy songs.
▪ I was an idiot, and Natalia the ideal woman: saucy, beautiful and wholesome.
▪ Indira Varma plays Maya, a saucy servant girl talented in the art of love.
▪ It's an exhausting ride from saucy comedy to icky, heartbreaking violence, but don't be put off.
▪ Ken Urdahl is young, a little more saucy.
▪ There is, for instance, the inevitable saucy servant girl, played in sprightly fashion by Suzanne Bouchard.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saucy

Saucy \Sau"cy\, a. [Compar. Saucier; superl. Sauciest.]

  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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
saucy

c.1500, "resembling sauce," later "impertinent, flippantly bold, cheeky" (1520s), from sauce (n.) + -y (2). The connecting notion is the figurative sense of "piquancy in words or actions." Compare sauce malapert "impertinence" (1520s), and slang phrase to have eaten sauce "be abusive" (1520s). Also compare salty in same senses.

Wiktionary
saucy

a. 1 Similar to sauce; having the consistency or texture of sauce. 2 impertinent or disrespectful, often in a way that is regarded as entertaining or amusing; smart. 3 impudently bold; pert; piquant. 4 Mildly erotic.

WordNet
saucy
  1. adj. characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality; "a certain irreverent gaiety and ease of manner" [syn: impertinent, irreverent, pert]

  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" [syn: fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, smart, sassy]

  3. [also: sauciest, saucier]

Wikipedia
Saucy (album)

Saucy is the seventh album released by MC Breed. It was released on February 18, 1997 for Ichiban Records and was produced by MC Breed, Jazze Pha, DJ Flash and Big Q.

Usage examples of "saucy".

This boy was red-haired, freckle-faced and snub-nosed, and he looked jollier than the other two put together, if that were possible, for his red hair curled in saucy, tight little ringlets, and his mouth was wide with smiles.

Or was it saucy magnanimity, a superior gesture, a token of malapert forgiveness?

He named one of the sauciest of the old-time nautches, and smiled at his own pun.

Rice muffled her in a shawl, Mademoiselle Saucier sat down at her right side and Peggy Morrison at her left, and the next dance began.

I are not the only men in Kaskaskia who admire Mademoiselle Saucier, my lad.

And after all, nobody can settle this but Mademoiselle Saucier herself.

The terrified maid crouched down in a helpless bunch on the hall floor, and Madame Saucier herself brought the lantern from the attic.

Captain Saucier put up the bars, and started a black line of men and women, with pieces of furniture, loads of clothing and linen, bedding and pewter and silver, and precious baskets of china, or tiers of books, upon their heads, up the attic stairs.

Madame Saucier sat down and fainted comfortably, when nothing else could be done.

Madame Saucier, reviving at the hint of such early rescue, and pressing to the window beside her husband.

The keen small shriek was so terrible in its helplessness and appeal to Heaven that Captain Saucier was made limp by it.

Madame Saucier announced over and over to her family and to Peggy, and to the slaves at the partition door, all of whom were waiting for the rescue barred from them by one obstinate little mummy.

Captain Saucier caught the frail bundle and drew the sick girl into the attic.

It was a dream when Captain Saucier sat down and stared haggardly at the two who had perished under his roof, and Colonel Menard stood with his hat over his face.

Hrecker did not think to ask why Saucier was in his doorway, belly straining against his traditional coverall, hairline arching toward the ceiling.