saucy
英 [ˈsɔː.si]
美 [ˈsɑː.si]
- adj. 俏丽的，漂亮的，活泼的；无礼的，卤莽的，莽撞的
星级词汇:
中文词源
saucy 粗俗的，色情的
sauce,粗俗行为，-y,形容词后缀。
英语词源
- saucy (adj.)
- 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.
权威例句
- 1. He was saucy and mischievous when he was working.
- 他工作时总爱调皮捣蛋.
- 2. She is a saucy little miss!
- 她是个黄毛丫头!
- 3. His daughter is a saucy tomboy.
- 他女儿是一个调皮的假小子.
- 4. It was saucy of you to contradict your father.
- 你顶撞父亲,真是无礼.
- 5. The saucy little girl from Hartford promptly corrected his idea.
- 活泼爽直的哈特福德姑娘马上修正他的主张.