Saucy vs Flirty - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between saucy and flirty

is that saucy is similar to sauce; having the consistency or texture of sauce while flirty is flirting, or seeming to flirt.

(er)

Similar to sauce; having the consistency or texture of sauce.

Impertinent or disrespectful, often in a way that is regarded as entertaining or amusing; smart.

* ~1603 , William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice , Act I, scene I, line 143:

If this be known to you, and your allowance/ When we have done you bold and saucy wrongs.

She is a loud, saucy child who doesn't show a lot of respect to her elders.

Impudently bold; pert; piquant.

Mildly erotic.

My wife and I enjoyed the dancing, but she found it a little too saucy .

* See also

* (l) * (l)

(er)

Flirting, or seeming to flirt.

* {{quote-news, 2009, January 5, John Branch, Bull Riders Wait All Day for a Few Seconds of Fury, New York Times, url=

, passage=A flirty woman in a straw hat slid through the crowd straight to Snyder. }}

* 2011 , Trish Perry, Tea for Two (page 47)

This was one flirty dress. Way too sultry for a first date, especially with someone she might have no real interest in.

* flirtatious

* flirtily * flirtiness