Wily vs Saucy - What's the difference?
wily | saucy | Related terms |
sly, cunning, full of tricks
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.
Wily is a related term of saucy.
As adjectives the difference between wily and saucy
is that wily is sly, cunning, full of tricks while saucy is similar to sauce; having the consistency or texture of sauce.wily
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.
Synonyms
* See alsosaucy
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 .