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saucinesses

saucinesses is the plural of sauciness.

Meaning of sauciness

Noun

sauciness (countable and uncountable, plural saucinesses)

  1. The property of being saucy.
    • And when the British respond to a risqué joke with ‘ooh la la’ there’s a sauciness implied that just isn’t there in the original French words, risqué meaning ‘risked’ (a verb, not an adjective) and oh là là a great many things from ‘wow’ to ‘oh dear’, none of them very sexy.2016 October 13, Matthew Anderson, “The foreign words that seem like English – but aren’t”, in BBC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2020
  2. An instance of saucy behavior.

Questions about saucinesses

What is saucinesses the plural of?
Saucinesses is the plural of sauciness.

Words near saucinesses in the dictionary

  1. saucier
  2. sauciers
  3. sauciest
  4. saucily
  5. sauciness
  6. saucinesses
  7. saucing
  8. saucing up
  9. saucings
  10. saucisse
  11. saucisses

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