salty vs saucy

salty

adj
  • Coarse; provocative; earthy. 

  • Tasting of salt. 

  • Irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter, bitchy. 

  • Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea). 

  • Containing salt. 

  • Pertaining to the Sardinian language and those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin ipse (“self”) instead of the Latin ille (“that”). 

saucy

adj
  • Sharp; pungent; piquant. 

  • Mildly erotic. 

  • Impudently bold; pert. 

  • Similar to sauce; having the consistency or texture of sauce. 

  • Impertinent or disrespectful, often in a manner that is regarded as entertaining or amusing; smart. 

How often have the words salty and saucy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )