saucebox
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of saucebox
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‘I said a clever metalworker and you came back with this boy... this saucebox, who couldn’t do the work anyway, because he ...’ Johnny waited grimly for her to finish her sentence.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
‘Now, you saucebox, you hold that tongue of yours. You’re not to go hanging ’round Cilia—giving her presents—and dear knows how you got the money.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
"Is she so, saucebox?" says the sister, giving him a box on the ear; which the father would probably have resented, had not Joseph, Fanny, and the pedlar at that instant returned together.
From Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 by Henry Fielding
Oh, what a bad runner!' echoed my saucebox.
From Our Village by Mary Russell Mitford
“No, saucebox, I don’t; but I mean to turn my knife-grinder’s wheel into a wheel of fortune; and with your help I will do so.”
From The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook by Frederick Marryat
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