saucy a [phonetics unavailable]. EDD ~ 2 IW. Skittish, belligerent; unpredictable, dangerous.
1925 Dial Notes v, 340 ~ Pugnacious; esp of seals. 1929 Nat Geog July, p. 125 Young seals are saucy and will come for a man until he snogs them with his bat. T 50/2-64 You wouldn't be allowed to let 'em run, if you had a bull, especially if he got saucy—[wouldn't] let a saucy bull or saucy horse run. But them days the bulls used to be as saucy as mischief. T 187/9-65 [The gun] could kill anywhere at all. All you had to do was hold her straight. But she was miserable saucy. She've had me beat all to pieces.
