Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An impertinent person.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A saucy, impudent person.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A saucy, impudent person; especially, a pert child.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A saucy, impudent or impertinent person.

Etymologies

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sauce +‎ box

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Examples

  • I am more dutiful, I hope, than witty; or I should be a fool as well as a saucebox.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • “Look at her Laura-ship!” said a saucebox to her partner.

    The Getting of Wisdom 2003

  • 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 2003

  • "Out, out with you, you saucebox, you interloper!" she screamed; and she dashed at him and pecked him till he beat a speedy retreat.

    The Nursery, No. 103, July, 1875. Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Various

  • To-day I have been visiting, which I had long neglected; and I dined with Mrs. Barton alone; and sauntered at the Coffee-house till past eight, and have been busy till eleven, and now I'll answer your letter, saucebox.

    The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901

  • 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 Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901

  • The calabash is left in the sun, and when the sauce dries up, water is poured on the dry ingredients, a perpetual saucebox.

    Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

  • "After all, I'm not sure but Nature's biggest miracle has been performed in the saucebox."

    A Bookful of Girls Anna Fuller 1884

  • The saucebox! and she earning the mighty wage of two-fifty per week.

    Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life Evelyn Raymond 1876

  • "I wish it were at the bottom!" replied saucebox, as loud as she could bawl, and pointing to the pedestals.

    Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney 1842

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