saucebox

English

Etymology

sauce +‎ box

Noun

saucebox (plural sauceboxes)

(colloquial) A saucy, impudent or impertinent person.
- 1628, John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy‎, II.i:
  Grilla: You are too perstreperous, sauce-box.
(colloquial) The mouth.
- 2015, Bec McMaster, Of Silk and Steam:
  “Shut your saucebox and get out of my sight,” Blade said.

Anagrams

subcoxae

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