To be a bit concerned about someone about someone calling my daughter this

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We were at a family party and someone that we don’t know very well (but seems was quite friendly and nice) called my daughter a ‘saucepot’. I didn’t think much of it at the time but I googled it later and found out it was a phrase to describe someone being sexy. He’ll be at another event in a couple of weeks..AIBU to find it a bit weird and want to keep more of a distance?

What was the context, was she being cheeky/bold/confident etc? In which case I can understand it.

If she was sitting in a corner playing quietly, not so much.

I've always understood it to mean sexy (and am 59)

INFORMAL•BRITISH

1. a person who is flirtatious or sexually suggestive (typically used of a woman).
2. "Pugh plays a saucepot named Katherine"

I always thought it meant cheeky. I’ve only heard it said by older people and always to little children 🤷‍♀️.

People use that word where I'm from about a kid to mean cheeky and cute. It's rather an old fashioned word.

Sassy...
Not necessarily sexy.. as in knows hey own mind and makes it clear

Totally innocuous if used where I’m from. The oldies used to say it to the babies as an endearing term.

If he said it to a 12 year old it would be concerning but not on a 2 year old. If he was going to be deliberately inappropriate with a child he wouldn't do it in front of their parents.
I am sure he wasn't chatting up your 2 year old.

We use it, in old school Dagenham is a term of endearment for cheeky.

In my area it means sexy cheeky minx means cheeky (obviously) in other areas it's the opposite

A female described my baby boys knees as "sexy" that made us blink a bit but she was on extreme medication and often used incorrect words

This is how I would take it, unless he was particularly weird in other ways

I’ve always taken it to mean cheeky, sassy. I’m 64 and it doesn’t have any sexual connotations to me. Perhaps the sexy angle is a recent change?

Probably meant cheeky/sassy. Not the right term but I had to google it to see what it actually meant and I genuinely just thought it meant cheeky. So I'd give them the benefit of the doubt.

My mum used to call me saucy when I was little but it meant cheeky, certainly not sexy.

I’m 63, and as a child in the West Midlands it definitely meant cheeky/confident/ a child who wasn’t afraid to speak up. It definitely wasn’t ‘sexy’ or derogatory

I have only ever heard it to describe someone as being cheeky in a friendly way.
I have never heard of any sexual connotation.

It means saucy round here - as in cheeky or sassy. There are absolutely no sexual or racial connotations to it, and whilst you might think it slightly rude to call your daughter cheeky there is nothing to take offense at.

Those people saying creepy, weird and red flags need to get a grip.

Those people saying creepy, weird and red flags need to get a grip.

Yep. Poor bloke.

You should report him to the police. Immediately.

I was born in the late 1960's and generally considered a "saucepot" by extended family and their friends. They simply meant I was a happy, cheeky, curious child. Nothing sexual about the term at all.

My cockney DH called the dog a saucy cunt the other day… he must be into bestiality, I must LTB immediately!

I remember a friend's relative calling his granddaughter a sexy little thing and a saucy wee b**ch. She was 18 months old. It turned my stomach.

I’ve only ever heard it for someone who is cheeky or sassy - asked my DH what he would think someone calling a 2 year old that and his exact words were cheeky or sassy!

I've only ever heard it as meaning cheeky, and used for boys as well as girls. I'm late 40s. As a pp has said, Delboy would call Rodney a "saucy mare"

Absolutely this. Another one here for whom it just means cheeky, and that’s how it’s used in this part of the UK (North).
’He’s hiding in plain sight?!!’ ffs.