different between untaught vs saucy
untaught
English
Etymology
un- +? taught
Adjective
untaught (comparative more untaught, superlative most untaught)
- Not taught; uneducated.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- My ?coles are not for unthriftes untaught,
For frantick faitours half mad and half ?traught;
But my learning is of another degree
To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.
- My ?coles are not for unthriftes untaught,
- 2005, Christine Alexander, Juliet McMaster, The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf (page 58)
- The gazing, the spying, and the ability to divine the eternal in the vivid manifestations of nature, here attributed to the young child, seem to be realised in this relatively untaught child of the woods of Oregon.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- (not comparable) Not taught; not conveyed by means of instruction.
- 1937, Manly Wade Wellman, School for the Unspeakable
- What they used to teach here
Now goes untaught.
- What they used to teach here
- 1937, Manly Wade Wellman, School for the Unspeakable
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:ignorant
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saucy
English
Alternative forms
- sawcy (obsolete)
Etymology
From sauce +? -y .
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?s??.s?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s?.si/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /?s?.si/
- Rhymes: -??si
- Rhymes: -?si
Adjective
saucy (comparative saucier, superlative sauciest)
- Similar to sauce; having the consistency or texture of sauce.
- Impertinent or disrespectful, often in a manner 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.
- ~1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice, Act I, scene I, line 143:
- Impudently bold; pert.
- Sharp; pungent; piquant.
- Mildly erotic.
- I enjoyed the dancing, but my wife found it a little too saucy.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:cheeky
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- sassy
References
Anagrams
- yucas
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