saucebox

Example Sentences

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‘Now, you saucebox, you hold that tongue of yours. You’re not to go hanging ’round Cilia—giving her presents—and dear knows how you got the money.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

‘I said a clever metalworker and you came back with this boy... this saucebox, who couldn’t do the work anyway, because he ...’ Johnny waited grimly for her to finish her sentence.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

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.

From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan

A mere light-o'-love and saucebox, as she had always herself called the miller's wife, was wholly unworthy to occupy, even in pity, the thoughts of so holy a man.

From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida

"You're an insolent saucebox," says Jemmy; "you've learned that at your fine school."

From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace