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saucily

adv

Etymology

From saucy + -ly.

  1. derived from salsus
  2. derived from *salsa✻
  3. derived from sause
  4. inherited from sauce
  5. suffixed as saucy — “sauce + y”
  6. suffixed as saucily — “saucy + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a saucy manner

    In a saucy manner; impudently or impertinently.

    • She walked off saucily and I watched, entranced, until she turned the corner; then I ran after her to ask her for a date.
    • 'What do you want?' she called saucily from the top of the stairs.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA