n. - (in greek and roman mythology) woodland god with some horselike or goatlike features.

- lecherous man. [greek saturos]

—n. - liquid or viscous accompaniment to a dish.

- something adding piquancy or excitement.

- colloq. Impudence, impertinence, cheek. —v. (-cing) colloq. Be impudent to; cheek. [latin salsus salted]

adj. (-ier, -iest) impudent, cheeky. saucily adv. Sauciness n.

n. - period spent in a special room heated very hot, to clean the body.

- such a room. [finnish]

—attrib. Adj. (esp. Of potatoes) fried quickly in a little fat. —n. Food so cooked. —v. (sauted or sauteed) cook in this way. [french sauter jump]

n. - person who saves esp. Money.

- (often in comb.) Thing that saves (time etc.).

- cheap (esp. Off-peak) fare.

(brit. Savour) —n. - characteristic taste, flavour, etc.

- hint of a different quality etc. In something. —v. - appreciate and enjoy (food, an experience, etc.).

- (foll. By of) imply or suggest (a specified quality). [latin sapor]

n. Cabbage with wrinkled leaves. [savoy in se france]

slang —v. (-ies, -ied) know. —n. Knowingness; understanding. —adj. (-ier, -iest) us knowing; wise. [pidgin alteration of spanish sabe usted you know]

—n. - hist. A member of the germanic people that conquered parts of england in 5th–6th c. B (usu. Old saxon) language of the saxons.

- = *anglo-saxon. —adj. - hist. Of the saxons.

- = *anglo-saxon. [latin saxo -onis]