saucier
- a chef or cook who specializes in making sauces.
Origin of saucier
saucy
- impertinent; insolent: a saucy remark; a saucy child.
- pert; boldly smart: a saucy little hat for Easter.
Origin of saucy
Synonyms for saucy
Related Words for saucier
rude, brash, cheeky, flippant, arch, audacious, bold, brazen, combative, flip, forward, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, intrusive, meddlesome, nervy, obtrusive, pertExamples from the Web for saucier
Contemporary Examples of saucier
“His sense of integrity is probably the most important quality to me as a president,” said Saucier, now a volunteer for Huntsman.
Jon Huntsman’s Timely Jump Before New Hampshire’s Presidential PrimaryPatricia Murphy
January 9, 2012
His most recent book, The Saucier's Apprentice , will be published in paperback in May.
Historical Examples of saucier
Our young lady returned to us saucier and more passionate, and haughtier than ever.
Wuthering HeightsEmily Bronte
Madame Saucier uttered a shriek as a great swell rolled the boat.
Old KaskaskiaMary Hartwell Catherwood
Captain Saucier thought he could, and he saw it would have to be done quickly.
Old KaskaskiaMary Hartwell Catherwood
"I would gladly put her out," said Captain Saucier anxiously.
Old KaskaskiaMary Hartwell Catherwood
A puff of gray wind come down; a saucier gust went by; and then a swirl of galish wind jumped over the pans.
Harbor Tales Down NorthNorman Duncan
saucy
- impertinent
- pert; jauntya saucy hat
Word Origin and History for saucier
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." Cf. sauce malapert "impertinence" (1520s), and slang phrase to have eaten sauce "be abusive" (1520s). Also cf. salty in same senses.