Saucy vs Designing - What's the difference?
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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:
Impudently bold; pert; piquant.
Mildly erotic.
A process of design.
* 1829 , Richard Carlile, The Lion
As adjectives the difference between saucy and designing
is that saucy is similar to sauce; having the consistency or texture of sauce while designing is artful; scheming.As a verb designing is
present participle of lang=en.As a noun designing is
a process of design.saucy
English
Adjective
(er)- 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.
- My wife and I enjoyed the dancing, but she found it a little too saucy .
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* (l)designing
English
(design)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Are these, the reality of things, a part of the great designings or are they not? If so, it would have been better, that there had been no such designings; if not, how is the theory of omnipotent design borne out?