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sauceboxes

sauceboxes is the plural of saucebox.

Meaning of saucebox

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

Questions about sauceboxes

What is sauceboxes the plural of?
Sauceboxes is the plural of saucebox.

Words near sauceboxes in the dictionary

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

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