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