saucebox

noun — 2 senses

saucebox

noun

Etymology From sauce + box.

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:

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