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?

My mother once called someone a slut because they were messy... I was horrified but she meant "slovenly"

As for the rubbish that boys don't get called the same... Cheeky Monkey and Little Monster ?

It has to mean 'cheeky' in this context, surely?

I've always heard it used to describe a sexy woman, but unless there was something creepy about the context I'd be surprised if he meant it that way; it does sound like plenty of people have used it or heard it used in a more innocuous context.

I thought it meant being funny and cheeky.

My female neighbour used to call my toddler DS a little saucepot, she was in her early 60’s.

Yep, always known it to mean cheeky too.

Another guy being branded a pervert based on nothing. I’m waiting for the ‘trust your gut’ responses.

Thanks for the replies, really interesting!

I wouldn’t say he was old, late 40s probably and there were a few other things he did, like try to tickle her and her friends a few times when they were playing. I’m not saying he’s a pedo at all and at the time I didn’t think too much on it but looking back, it is something I’ve thought over a few times, which is why I wanted to ask what you thought.

She is confident and fun, so I’m obviously hoping he was saying he’s sassy (which I hadn’t heard of until this thread) x

I've only ever heard it in the sexy sense.

I'd wager it was innocent of any sexual meaning and just meant she was, as others say sassy, cheeky or just innocently mischievous.

Might it be one of those things that's regional so the meaning in (say) Leeds is different to Lurgan?

Well now you've mentioned tickling OP, its time to bang him up.

How come you never mentioned that in the OP, the context is quite important

I really hope you're being sarcastic.

It was used frequently by my grandparents to mean sassy! I don't think this means what you think it does

Are you sure it was sauce pot and not Sasspot?

Sasspot just means sassy and dramatic. I've never heard of saucepot.

As lots of us have said, saucepot (not sasspot) meaning cheeky, is very common in many parts of the UK. I free up with hearing it and being called one very regularly.

Grew up, even.

Saucepot is similar to sexpot, definitely sexual in nature.

I was brought up to see saucy as cheeky, nothing sexual, but not sure if sauce pot means the same.

I’ve only ever heard this round toddlers to mean cheeky/tinker/sassy!

This.
it was an expression my aunts used all the time. Definitely wasn’t anything sexual. You are overreacting.

Google is by no means definitive.

Saucepot when I was a child meant cheeky - quite innocent.

Another phrase used frequently was ‘she’s going to grow up to be a proper little madam’ - no thought of a future sex worker.

My 93 year old aunt used to call me this when was little. Where I'm from it just meant sassy which pretty much sums up a lot of 2 year olds

I’m surprised at the number of British English speakers who seemingly use ‘sassy’ as a regular part of their vocabulary. To me, it’s very much American.

‘Sassy’ is effectively the same word as ‘saucy’, of course. Both terms can have sexual connotations but when describing a small child simply mean ‘cheeky’. YABU.

I have always to understand it to mean cheeky, mischievous, same as saying cheeky monkey. Never associated it with sexy at all, regardless of age.

’Saucepot is similar to sexpot, definitely sexual in nature.’

Nope, one has sex on the pot, the other doesn’t.

Ed Stewpot Stewart presented BBC a radio Junior Choice for many years.

Saucepot & stewpot were everyday phrases for many now 50y plus.

Yeah, this.

When I was little, in the 80s, I would have been called it if I was being given out to for being cheeky. Completely non-sexual.