Definition of "saucebox" []

• Informal An impertinent person. (noun)

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• "I am more dutiful, I hope, than witty; or I should be a fool as well as a saucebox."
• "“Look at her Laura-ship!” said a saucebox to her partner."
• "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."