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Saucebox

Saucebox \Sauce"box`\, n. [See Sauce, and Saucy.] A saucy, impudent person; especially, a pert child.

Saucebox, go, meddle with your lady's fan, And prate not here!
--A. Brewer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
saucebox

"one addicted to making saucy remarks," 1580s, from sauce (n.) + box (n.1).

Wiktionary
saucebox

n. (cx colloquial English) A saucy, impudent or impertinent person.

Usage examples of "saucebox".

That saucebox has the impudence to call me intransigent, stubborn, know-it-all, conceited.