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saucebox

noun

Etymology

From sauce + box.

  1. derived from Boxenstopp
  2. derived from pyxis
  3. derived from buxis
  4. inherited from *buhsā✻
  5. inherited from box
  6. inherited from box — “container, box, cup”
  7. compounded as saucebox — “sauce + box”

Definitions

  1. A saucy, impudent or impertinent person.

    • Grilla: You are too perstreperous, sauce-box.

  2. The mouth.

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for saucebox. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA