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saucebox

saucebox noun: a saucy, impudent or impertinent person.

Noun

saucebox (plural sauceboxes)

  1. (colloquial) A saucy, impudent or impertinent person.
    • Grilla: You are too perstreperous, sauce-box.1628, John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy, II.i
  2. (colloquial) The mouth.
    • “Shut your saucebox and get out of my sight,” Blade said.2015, Bec McMaster, Of Silk and Steam

Forms of saucebox

pluralsauceboxes

Origin of saucebox

From sauce + box.

Questions about saucebox

What does saucebox mean?
Saucebox means a saucy, impudent or impertinent person.
What part of speech is saucebox?
Saucebox is a noun.
What is the plural of saucebox?
The plural of saucebox is sauceboxes.

Words near saucebox in the dictionary

  1. sauce up
  2. sauce-alone
  3. sauce-y
  4. sauceboat
  5. sauceboats
  6. saucebox
  7. sauceboxes
  8. sauced
  9. sauced up
  10. Sauceda
  11. Saucedas

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