saucebox

[ saws-boks ]
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nounInformal: Older Use.
  1. a saucy person.

Origin of saucebox

1
First recorded in 1580–90; sauce + box1

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How to use saucebox in a sentence

  • I had your letter this night, as told you just and no more in my last; for this must be taken up in answering yours, saucebox.

    The Journal to Stella | Jonathan Swift

British Dictionary definitions for saucebox

saucebox

/ (ˈsɔːsˌbɒks) /


noun
  1. informal a saucy person

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