单词 | saucy |
释义 | saucyadj.1adv. A. adj.1 I. Senses relating to behaviour. 1. a. Impudent, presumptuous; insolent or disrespectful, esp. towards those in authority. In later use usually with milder sense: impertinent, irreverent, cheeky. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adjective] thristec897 bolda1000 keen1297 apert1330 smartc1400 malaperta1425 overbolda1425 affronted1485 saucy1511 impertinata1525 over-familiar1529 pert1535 cocket1537 cockapert1556 contumelious1561 impudent1563 brass-bold1582 pertlike1582 paughtya1586 audacious1586 copped1597 effronted1598 petulant1598 dortya1605 rufty-tufty1606 facy1607 snappish1608 bold-faceda1616 over-pert1621 impertinent1631 procacious1660 insolent1678 calleting1691 effrontuousa1734 imperent1771 free1775 sassy1799 pawky1809 iron-sideda1825 gilpie1835 cheeky1838 fresh1843 snouty1858 nebby1873 gay1889 nebsy1894 nervy1896 brass neck1925 facety1928 facey1929 brass-necked1935 chutzpadik1959 the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adjective] > pert or brash pertc1405 skipjack1598 puppily1682 whelpish1688 saucy1710 owdacious1751 minxing1767 puppyish1775 puppy-like1792 brash1824 pertish1836 cheekish1838 uppish1841 tossy1848 fly1884 soubrettish1891 whipper-snapping1925 in your face1975 1511 H. Watson tr. St. Bernardino Chirche of Euyll Men & Women sig. E.iijv Many yong chyldren are so dyssolute and gyuen to vnthryftynes, glotons, saucy lyers, and wyll do nothynge. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke v. f. lxixv What a more shamelesse or sawcie pranke coulde there bee, then to take downe the tilyng of an other mannes house, and to tumble in suche a lothely sight before suche a presence to behold it? 1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 24 Symon magus was so sawcye as to name him selfe the mightie power of God. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 289 I wil speake to him like a sawcie Lacky, and vnder that habit play the knaue with him. View more context for this quotation 1646 H. Markham Let. in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 2 I shall not trouble your Ladyship with her scandelous and sawcy language of my Lord or yourselfe. 1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant iv. i. 41 Sawcy Rascal, to disturb my Meditations. 1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 21 Sept. (1948) I. 26 Here must I begin another letter, on a whole sheet, for fear sawcy little MD should be angry. a1721 Duke of Buckingham Julius Caesar i. ii, in Wks. (1723) I. 217 Betters! thou sawcy Citizen, be silent. a1822 P. B. Shelley Charles I ii, in Wks. (1870) II. 379 Mark you what spirit sits in St. John's eyes? Methinks it is too saucy for this presence. ?1843 S. Smith Let. in Lady Holland Mem. S. Smith (1855) II. 499 I was sorry to be forced to give —— such a beating, but he was very saucy and deserved it. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. v. 16 He forwarded a copy of his letter to Lord John, who sent him in reply a saucy comment on it. 1921 H. Williamson Beautiful Yrs. 30 Naw then, I'll box ees ears for um, saucy boy. 1983 W. N. Rowe Clapp's Rock xiii. 195 If you don't mind a saucy question, how much money do you yourself propose to put into these projects? 2008 P. Hensher Northern Clemency 568 Some of the other women were saucy to him, but Rosalie approved of someone bettering themselves. b. Lively, spirited; sprightly. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [adjective] > cheerful and lively taitc1300 cant1330 crouse?a1400 pert?a1513 sprightya1522 aleger1590 sprightly1594 sunshine1594 brighta1616 lifesomec1635 flippant1711 cantya1724 saucy1741 chirk1789 chipper1806 chirrupy1808 up1815 chirpy1837 breezy1870 cyclonish1884 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xxxvi. 219 Never was a saucier dear Girl, than you, in your Maiden Days. 1822 C. G. Ward Family Portraits x. 200 Indeed, Emma, I wish I could instil some of my saucy spirits into your melancholy ones. 1901 S. E. Phipps Old House by Sea xxi. 170 How do you suppose I, and all the rest of us, are going to get along without you on the farm, with your saucy, sprightly ways, and your ‘true as steel’ young heart? 2006 R. S. Sheres Keeping Gideon vii. 66 It would appear that the saucy, irrepressible Paola Rosetti, avant-garde woman of the world who speaks her mind without reservation is, in reality, a meek, compliant daughter. 2. a. Fastidious; spoilt; (esp. with reference to food) fussy, picky. Now Scottish and English regional. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > fastidiousness > [adjective] chisa700 estfula1000 esquaymous1303 squeamousc1325 overnicec1350 curiousc1380 dangerousc1386 delicatea1393 preciousc1395 nicec1400 skigc1400 over-delicatea1425 daintethc1430 ticklec1456 quaint1483 dauncha1500 pickinga1500 feat?1529 elegant?1533 queasy1545 fine1546 fine-fingered1549 fastidious?1555 fine-mouthed1559 chary1567 weamish1571 saucy1573 dainty1576 superfine1576 niced1577 overcurious1579 nicing1581 fineish1582 prick-me-dainty1583 daint1590 finical1592 tiptoe-nice1593 nice1594 nicking1598 choice1601 squeamish1608 marchpane1609 hypercritical1611 particular1616 finicking1661 overcritical1667 just so1696 penurious1703 fal-lal1747 ogertful1754 nackety1756 quiddling1789 pernickety1808 pershittie1808 taffety1814 hypercritic1820 faddy1824 finicky1825 meticulous1827 daintified1834 squeamy1838 picksome1855 choosey1862 picky1867 hyperaesthetic1879 persnickety1885 précieux1891 perskeet1897 tasty1905 Nice Nelly1922 perfectionist1942 snicketya1960 perfectionistic1968 1573 T. Tusser Points Huswifrie (new ed.) f. 31, in Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) Where coeking Dads, make sawsie lads. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Friand,..saucie, lickorous, daintie-mouthed, sweet-toothed. 1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine: 2nd Pt. ii. 174 Thou hast a sawcy and a luxurious Palate. 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. (at cited word) They've got too saucy to ëat bacon. 1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. V. (at cited word) Eat what's on your plate, and don't be so saucy. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 255/2 Saucey, fastidious, fanciful. b. Hence of a plate: showing evidence of fussy eating; left with uneaten food on it; unfinished. Now English regional. ΚΠ 1874 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 27 July 4/1 ‘I won't have any proud oats left,’ says the careful housewife to children leaving saucy plates. 1904 A. Bennett Great Man vi. 50 He ate a little of the lean, leaving a wasteful margin of lean round the fat..; then he unobtrusively laid down his knife and fork. ‘Come, Henry,’ said Aunt Annie, ‘don't leave a saucy plate.’ 1975 P. Wright Derbyshire Drawl (1977) 15 For the man of the house to leave a saucy plate with food still left on it is the worst possible rebuff to her pride. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 255/2 Saucey-plaãte, by derivation, one with food left on it. 3. Originally: †wanton, lascivious (obsolete). Now colloquial in light-hearted or humorous use with milder sense: sexually suggestive or provocative; slightly erotic; sexy. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [adjective] golelichc1000 luxuriousc1330 jollyc1384 lustyc1386 Venerienc1386 nicea1393 gayc1405 lasciviousc1425 libidinous1447 Venerian1448 coltishc1450 gigly1482 lubric1490 ranka1500 venereous1509 lubricous1535 venerious1547 boarish?1550 goatish?1552 cadye1554 lusting1559 coy1570 rage1573 rammish1577 venerial1577 lustful1579 rageous1579 proud1590 lust-breathed1594 rampant1596 venerous1597 sharp-seta1600 fulsome1600 lubrical1602 hot-backed1607 ruttish1607 stoned1607 muskish-minded1610 Venerean1612 saucya1616 veneral1623 lascive1647 venereal1652 lascivient1653 hircine1656 hot-tempered1673 ramp1678 randy1771 concupiscenta1834 aphrodisiac1862 lubricious1884 radgie1894 a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. vi. 152 If he shall thinke it fit, A sawcy Stranger in his Court, to Mart As in a Romish Stew. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. iv. 45 To remit Their sawcie sweetnes, that do coyne heauens Image In stamps that are forbid. View more context for this quotation 1620 Bp. J. Hall Honor Married Clergie iii. vii. 288 Her Clergie was sawcy; if they had not Wiues, they would haue Lemans. 1701 Sylvan Dream 4 Heaps of Ribaldry and saucy Prate. 1729 Hell upon Earth 43 Where have you been you saucy Queen? If I catch you Strouling and Caterwauling, I'll beat the Milk out of your Breasts I will so. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems xvi. 3 You that lightly a saucy verse resenting, Misconceit me. 1905 R. Parrish Sword of Old Frontier xxviii. 294 The saucy minx..flung back her hair coquettishly. 1974 Times 29 June 14/3 Saucy postcards have always, since their beginning at the turn of the century, gone too far. 2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Feb. (Front section) 3 (advt.) Why not add some saucy lingerie to your Valentine's Day shopping list? 2015 Daily Mirror (Nexis) (N. Ireland ed.) 1 Jan. She posted a saucy snap looking as if she was about to lock lips with her best pal. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [adjective] > contemptuous ollinga1200 hokerfula1275 scorningc1325 deignousc1330 despitousa1340 disdainousc1374 lightlya1400 scornfula1400 despiteous14.. endeignousc1400 hathlya1425 spitefulc1440 despitefula1450 fastidious?a1475 contemptuous1534 disdainfula1542 huff-nosed1542 lightliful1552 dainful1577 contemptible1594 sdeignful1596 disdained1598 contemptful1604 contemning1605 overlookinga1619 slight1632 slightinga1637 slightya1640 despisable1644 despicable1662 sneering1692 scornful1704 saucy1716 vilipendinga1722 fastidiose1730 unappreciating1833 scorny1836 high-sniffing1837 sniffy1871 sneery1872 sneerful1880 pejorativea1888 dismissive1930 sniffish1933 fuck you1962 1716 J. Gay Trivia i. 8 In sawcy State the griping Broker sits. 1867 E. Johnston Poems 180 Had ye drest like a clark, aye in a clean sark, I vow I wad ne'er been sae saucy. a1917 E. C. Smith Braid Haaick (1927) 19 A'll eet ochts, be hanged; A'm no saucy. 5. Vain, conceited. Now Scottish and English regional. ΚΠ a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 173 Sin Merlin laid Auld Reikie's causey, And made her o' his wark right saucy. 1863 R. Quinn Heather Lintie (ed. 2) 126 Wi' feet, hands, waist, neck, hair an' facie, But ocht tae grace them, O' whilk a princess might be saucy. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 255/2 Saucey, used derogatively... ‘Abuv thirsens.’ II. Senses relating to food. 6. Flavoured with or covered in sauce; resembling or having the consistency of sauce.rare before 20th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > seasoning > [adjective] > flavoured with sauce saucy?a1513 sauced1894 a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 206 Quhair thow lyis sawsy [a1586 soust] in saphron, bak and syd. 1776 E. Oxnard Jrnl. 12 Dec. in New-Eng. Hist. & Geneal. Reg. (1872) 26 254 We had boiled Turkey & oyster sauce,—a saucy dish in this country. 1967 La Crosse (Wisconsin) Tribune 4 Oct. (Final ed.) 14 (caption) Easy, pennywise dinner features saucy meatballs with a pineapple and cottage cheese salad, hot biscuit ring and butterscotch pudding. 2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Sept. d3/1 Add garlic, followed by chicken, peppers and skin. Stir to combine, then add sherry, stock and soy sauce. Cook until mixture is saucy, about 3 minutes, then serve with white rice. 7. Piquant; pleasantly pungent, sharp, or tangy. ΚΠ 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xxv. 279 Delicate, and of a sawcie and delicious taste. 1630 J. Taylor Great Eater of Kent in Wks. i. 146/1 Nor in all his life time the queasinesse of his stomacke needed any sawcy spurre or switch of sowre Veriuice or acute Vineger. 1785 Theologico-controversistical Conf. at Hague I. 97 It smells deliciously, both strong and savoury, most rich and saucy to the palate. 1927 Decatur (Illinois) Evening Herald 22 July 10 (advt.) ‘America's most delicious French Dressing’, women say of Wright's. Its creamy smoothness and its saucy flavor make it the preferred dressing for hot weather dishes. 1938 Homestead (Bloemfontein, S. Afr.) 22 June 27/2 I have picked out three or four [bottles of peach jam], and am going to try making them into chutney by boiling them up with vinegar, chopped apples and onions and spices till it is a thick pulp with a good saucy flavour. 2006 Wine Enthusiast Mag. Essent. Buying Guide 2007 131/2 The palate is thick with plum, raisin, and smoky, tangy, saucy notes. III. Figurative and extended uses. 8. With reference to a ship or boat. ΚΠ 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lxxx. sig. Fv My sawsie barke (inferior farre to his) On your broad maine doth wilfully appeare. View more context for this quotation 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 41 Where's then the sawcie boate, Whose weake vntymberd sides but euen now Corriuald greatnesse? View more context for this quotation 1648 R. Crashaw Delights Muses (ed. 2) 70 Seas had not been rebuk't with sawcy Oares. b. Smart, attractive. Cf. sense A. 10. ΚΠ 1811 Boston Patriot 27 July The warlike and saucy appearance of the little ship tended not a little to give life and animation on the occasion. 1828 Sporting Mag. 21 341 Several East India ships..with such saucy rigging that would have made the Yachters raving in envy. 1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere xix. 173 Slow moving trawlers and saucy little crab boats. 1878 W. C. Bennett Sea Songs 78 Tight and saucy—tight and saucy, Trim's the ship we hail from. 1905 J. B. Connolly Deep Sea's Toll 63 She did sail, after a fashion. She did not go along like the saucy vessel that had put out from T Dock less than a week before,..but she made headway. 1979 C. Abraham White Ships (1986) xi. 157 A saucy vessel... As sweet as you could wish to find. 9. Of a nose: short and turned up at the tip, esp. in a way considered attractive. ΚΠ 1782 Anna I. xxxii. 119 I have a saucy turn-up-nose in my favour. 1888 W. E. Henley Bk. Verses 155 She has..the sauciest nose. 1901 G. Anthony Victim of Circumstances xix. 172 She was plump and compact, with a saucy nose and an enviable wardrobe. 2000 D. McLellan Girls xxiv. 156 Blue-eyed, with a saucy nose and mousy hair. 10. Esp. of clothes: bold and smart in style; stylish, chic. ΚΠ 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 642 There was the means in my shop, of getting as fashionable a coat as the sprucest of these saucy sparks had on, to say nothing of the lining I could put in the pouches. 1838 Fashionable Coaley (song) in Queen's Own Songster I did my green plush breeches doff For a pair of moleskins saucy. 1843 A. Tennyson in Tait's Edinb. Mag. May 275/2 Their saucy caps, and their crisped hair. 1950 Stoutonia (Univ. Wisconsin–Stout) 17 Mar. 8 (advt.) The saucy jacket with cuffed ¾ length sleeves, and button trimmed pockets, complements the double purpose skirt. 1959 Tan Oct. 45 (caption) A variation on the ‘Italian’ cut is shown in this casual, yet saucy hairstyle. 2014 P. Foster Ridgeline xxiii. 126 Adeline imagined herself in a sweeping skirt of silk, a saucy hat perched on unswept hair. 11. Australian. In Australian Aboriginal usage: dangerous; poisonous, venomous. Now rare. ΚΠ 1835 Trans. Zool. Soc. 1 236 The aborigines saying, alluding to the spur, ‘It is very saucy’; such being their English expression when they wish to imply that something is hurtful or poisonous. 1888 Daily Tel. (Sydney) 14 Apr. 9/5 To the blacks the brown snake is ‘carbon saucy’ fellow, meaning, if bitten, nothing less than death. 1938 Bombala (Austral.) Times 5 Aug. 2/4 The black boy's horse got bogged in the swamp above the homestead, and the boy said to the boss, ‘My word that creek one saucy fellow.’ 12. English regional. Of a road or path: slippery. ΚΠ 1848 A. B. Evans Leicestershire Words 78 Its saucy walking to-day, Miss. 1920 N. Staffs. Field Club Trans. & Ann. Rep 1919–20 LIV. 50 T'mare were-na fit to drag a heavy load up that bonk, and that as saucy (slippery) as it is. 1994 C. Upton et al. Surv. Eng. Dial.: Dict. & Gram. Saucy, slippery. B. adv. In a saucy manner (in various senses of the adjective); saucily. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adverb] wooinglya1382 boldlya1387 malapertly1447 malapertc1460 insolentlya1513 over-boldly1547 contumeliously1548 sauce malapertly1556 impudently1561 bold1597 saucy1598 petulantly1610 audaciously1611 affrontedlya1614 effrontedly1628 impertinently1671 effrontuouslya1734 procaciously1772 cheekily1872 sassily1883 brassily1889 1598 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Plutarch De Curiositate in Queen Elizabeth's Englishings (1899) x. 13 Suche vers as Archi-Lochus againe women Lewdely and ful sawsy made. 1713 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 21 Feb. (1948) II. 624 Mesinks I writt a little sawcy last night. 1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xii, in Poems 14 They gang as saucy by poor folk, As I wad by a stinkan brock. 2010 J. E. Valent Catching Moondrops xi. 184 Gemma Teague! If that ain't the first time I ever heard you talk saucy. Phrases† In collocation with malapert for emphasis, typically in saucy and malapert: very insolent or presumptuous. Cf. sauce malapert n. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1529 J. Skelton Agaynst Scottes in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. B Your Sumner to saucy to malapert. 1541 T. Paynell tr. Felicius Conspiracie of Catiline sig. Sv There is no slaue, whose seruile condition is any thyng tollerable, whiche doth not vtterly abhore the saucy and malapert boldnes of our citisins [L. qui non audaciam ciuium perhorrescat]. 1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law i. Introd. 7 Comparisons wer of al things most saucy and malepert. 1718 J. Strype Life J. Whitgift iii. xxii. 305 His saucy and malapert Behaviour towards him. CompoundsΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > impudent person bolda1400 capron hardya1477 malaperta1529 jackanapes1534 past-shame1553 saucea1556 saucy-face1566 outfacer1579 impudent1586 Jack sauce?1590 brazen-face1602 impertinence1611 impertinent1612 insolency1613 insolenta1616 brass-face1647 flapsea1652 impudence1671 bold-face1692 ironface1697 Corinthian1699 scandal-proof1699 saucy-box1702 busker1728 insolence1740 effronterist1776 pert1785 nash-gab1816 card1853 pawk1855 sass-box1856 a one1880 cockapert1881 1702 R. Steele Funeral iii. 45 Could not you say when he Kisse me, sure sawcy-box dat's meat for your Master. 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 21 Nov. (1948) I. 418 Well; but I won't answer your letter now, sirrah saucy boxes, no, no; not yet. 1901 Bathurst (New S. Wales) Free Press 29 Apr. ‘We like the warmth and sunshine, my mother, do we not?’ and Rosie suddenly pressed her lips on Mrs. Ellerton's cheek. ‘Yes, saucy-box. Go and sit down. What a tease it is!’ ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > impudent person bolda1400 capron hardya1477 malaperta1529 jackanapes1534 past-shame1553 saucea1556 saucy-face1566 outfacer1579 impudent1586 Jack sauce?1590 brazen-face1602 impertinence1611 impertinent1612 insolency1613 insolenta1616 brass-face1647 flapsea1652 impudence1671 bold-face1692 ironface1697 Corinthian1699 scandal-proof1699 saucy-box1702 busker1728 insolence1740 effronterist1776 pert1785 nash-gab1816 card1853 pawk1855 sass-box1856 a one1880 cockapert1881 1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Agamemnon v. iiii. sig. G.iii O Thou thy mothers enimie, vngracious saucy face, After what sorte dost thou a maid appere in publyque place? 1684 T. Otway Atheist iii. 22 Robb'd, Sir! No, Mr. Saucy-face. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 247 Come, Sawcy-face, give me another Glass of Wine. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xxi. 96 For why? The dear saucy-face knows not how to help herself. ΚΠ ?1553 Respublica (1952) i. iii. 7 Whoo buzzeth in myne eare so? what? ye sawecye Iacke? 1838 J. P. Kennedy Rob of Bowl I. x. 117 ‘You are a saucy Jack, Master Captain,’ replied the dame. saucy-looking adj. of saucy appearance; smart, stylish, attractive; (now) esp. having a sexy or sexually suggestive appearance. ΚΠ 1798 J. Baillie Tryal i. i, in Series Plays Stronger Passions I. 195 Nay, dont lay the fault upon the wig, good sir, for it is as youthful, and as sly, and as saucy looking as the best head of hair in the county. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair li. 458 Becky laughed; gay, and saucy looking. 1858 H. Bateman Belgium 19 Green tunics, saucy-looking hats with cockades and feathers, rifles and swords, and marching and music. 2011 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 22 Oct. (Life & Style section) 8 A saucy-looking '50s pin-up girl. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). † saucyadj.2 Obsolete. Affected by saucefleme n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] > abscess > boil > affected with sauceflemec1386 sauceflemeda1450 sauceline1537 boily1559 carbuncled1569 saucy1600 bubukled1822 carbunculated1842 carbunculate1854 carbuncly1922 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. lxxiii. 604 This virgins milke is good to heale..saucie and red faces [Fr. goutte roses & taches rouges du visage]. 1623 G. Markham Countrey Contentments, or Eng. Huswife (new ed.) 20 For a pympled or a red-saucy face. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.1adv.1511adj.21600 |
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