fresco3

³ = cheeky [cheekier -comp., cheekiest -sup.], sassy [sassier -comp., sassiest -sup.], saucy [saucier -comp., sauciest -sup.].

Ex. The young man in the picture is myself snapped twenty-five years or so ago by a cheeky thirteen-year-old during the first few months of my first teaching job.

Ex. This series of personal essays are at various times sassy, profound, superficial, and maddening.

Ex. Singers and other entertainers in Burma have been warned to cut out saucy behaviour and be neat and tidy or face the consequences.

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* ponerse fresco con = act + fresh with.

* quedarse tan fresco = not bat an eyelash, not bat an eyelid.

* ser un fresco con = act + fresh with.

* tan fresco = as cool as a cucumber.