saucebox

English

Etymology

sauce +‎ box

Noun

saucebox (plural sauceboxes)

1. (colloquial) A saucy, impudent or impertinent person.
   • 1628, John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy‎^[1], II.i:

     Grilla: You are too perstreperous, sauce-box.

2. (colloquial) The mouth.
   • 2015, Bec McMaster, Of Silk and Steam:

     “Shut your saucebox and get out of my sight,” Blade said.

Anagrams

• subcoxae