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saucebox colloq.|ˈsɔːsbɒks|
[f. sauce n. 5 + box n.]
A person addicted to making saucy or impertinent remarks. Also attrib.
1588Marprel. Epist. (Arb.) 6 Why sawceboxes must you be pratling? 1675Cotton Scoffer Scoft 34 For which, Sir Sawce-box, dost thou see, Since thou'lt make them, I'll un⁓make thee. 1741Richardson Pamela I. 29 And so I am to be expos'd, am I, said he.., to the whole World, by such a Saucebox as you? 1820Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) II. 121 She's a goosecap, you know, and a romp, and a saucebox. 1825in C. E. Pearce Life & Times Madame Vestris (1923) 116 We thought that the stamping sort of sauce-box air with which she marched away to the tune of the ‘Dashing White Sergeant’ was too much in keeping with her notorious male-attire exhibitions. 1875R. G. White in Galaxy XIX. 558 What delight it must have given this she sauce-box to make that answer to her own father. 1969V. C. Clinton-Baddeley Only a Matter of Time 89 He hadn't used ‘camp’ for several weeks—not since his sauce-box notice of Idomeneo. |