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English
Etymology
saucy + -ly
Adverb
saucily (comparative more saucily, superlative most saucily)
- In a saucy manner; impudently or impertinently.
She walked off saucily and I watched, entranced, until she turned the corner; then I ran after her to ask her for a date.
1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Dainty China Country”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M. Hill Co., →OCLC, page 232:The Clown put his hands in his pockets, and after puffing out his cheeks and nodding his head at them saucily he said, “My lady fair, / Why do you stare / At poor old Mr. Joker? / You’re quite as stiff / And prim as if / You’d eaten up a poker!”
1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 62:'What do you want?' she called saucily from the top of the stairs.