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?

Obviously a word that is used in many contexts. It does not seem to be problematic, but like anything if it bothers you keep your eyes open.

I think that most parents naturally tend to keep a watchful eye on toddlers as a matter of course .

My grandparents always said it as another work for cheeky.

Different areas use different slang terms in different ways however she's 2 so you should be keeping a close eye on your daughter anyway especially around strangers

Definitely cheeky referring to little kids. Was common where I grew ip in Wales

However for teens and above is defo sexual, page 3 lads mag phrasing.

Wouldn't be worried at all.

Weird choice of words IMO but when I think about it it's the sort of thing late FIL might have said about DD.
I think it means 'cheeky' .

Regional dialect thing?

I have have a relative who uses it to mean cheeky. Your full of sauce (cheekiness), your a saucepot

The word might be innocent but listen to your gut OP. Especially the tickling thing.

Not in my world. It absolutely has sexual undertones, whether deliberate or not.

One of the volunteers at the playgroup I go to calls my DS a saucepot when he’s being silly/mischievous. She’s in her 80s and I’m confident she doesn’t mean it in a sexual way at all.

So strange that it has such different meanings to different people though!

That’s the context I know the word - the same as “sassy”

Yabu op.

Not in my world. None whatsoever

Saucy means cheeky - I would assume he means she’s cheeky

In the context of being 2 years old I would say meaning cute and cheeky.

Well it didn't in mine, or in the area I grew up in. So you don't get to demonise someone with assumptions of paedophilia just because your mind goes to a different place.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/saucy

I thought sauce pot meant along the lines of ‘one who says cheeky things’. I think the fact his behaviour has stuck with you means your spidey senses are going off. I also think mine sometimes go off unnecessarily but I wouldn’t let that stop me being 100% on-guard.

Why are people giving the definition of saucy? Saucepot is different to saucy, in that it has a more obvious meaning of titilliating, like sexpot.

Female relative says this to my DC when they're being cheeky.

It’s a very 1980s term for “sexy and a bit slutty” - the kind of word that a tabloid would use to describe Melinda Messenger or Kelly Brook.

The word "saucepot" has no sexual connection at all for me. As far as I'm concerned it just means cheeky and is an affectionate term not a put-down.

I suspect the meaning may have become confused in some people's minds with sexpot because the two words sound so similar (and also because "saucy" is not a word much used these days).

"Saucy" is a word I associate with my
grandmother, who was born in the 1890s. She often used it when talking about us as children in the 1960s and 1970s. The description was often accompanied by an approving (and very gentle) tweak on the cheek.

Both saucy and cheeky are context dependent, I think - I can imagine either of them being said by Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor or Sid James in a Carry on film and it being very different to
"I'll have none of your sauce/cheek!" or "You cheeky monkey/saucepot!"

It’s become confused in the minds of plenty of journalists then, and has taken on a new meaning:

”saucepot Roxanne Pallett looked like ‘hot stuff’ while practicing spins on the ice” (first link on Google)

If a word is used to mean “sexy” often enough, I’m afraid it starts to actually mean “sexy”. Like “slutty” no longer really meaning “lazy”.

I’m late forties and was regularly referred to as a saucepot, a saucy mare or a saucy bleeder when I was a child (depending on how far I was pushing my luck at the time). And I use those same expressions now to refer to all ages and both sexes. It has always meant cheeky. Definitely nothing sexual or inappropriate about it.

The tickling would make me feel uncomfortable though, even though I’d think it was probably a well meaning attempt to connect with a child.

^^This!!

I've called my DGC 'saucepots' when they were small.

It has nothing, NOTHING to do with being 'sexy' or of 'mixed heritage' or anything else remotely suspect.

It just means they're a bit cheeky.