sauce malapert

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• saucy — (adj.) c.1500, resembling sauce, later impertinent, cheeky (1520s), from SAUCE (Cf. sauce) (q.v.). The connecting notion is the figurative sense of piquancy in words or actions. Cf. sauce malapert impertinence (1520s), and slang phrase to have… …   Etymology dictionary

• insolence — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Rudeness Nouns 1. (overbearing behavior) insolence, arrogance; hauteur, haughtiness, airs; overbearance; presumption, assertiveness, bravado, pomposity, snobbery; defiance. 2. (impertinent behavior)… …   English dictionary for students

• impertinence — n 1. insolence, impudence, audacity, effrontery, presumption, presumptuousness; boldness, brazenness, freshness, brashness, pertness, sauciness, shamelessness, Inf. cheekiness, Inf. sassiness, Inf. brassiness; impoliteness, unmannerliness, ill… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder