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.
雙語例句
1. He was saucy and mischievous when he was working.
他工作時總愛調(diào)皮搗蛋.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. She is a saucy little miss!
她是個黃毛丫頭!
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. His daughter is a saucy tomboy.
他女兒是一個調(diào)皮的假小子.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. It was saucy of you to contradict your father.
你頂撞父親,真是無禮.
來自辭典例句
5. The saucy little girl from Hartford promptly corrected his idea.