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  • noun Plural form of saucebox.

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Examples

  • Are not you sauceboxes to write “lele” [27] like Presto?

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • Well, my eighth is with you now, young women; and your seventh to me is somewhere in a post-boy's bag; and so go to your gang of deans, and Stoytes, and Walls, and lose your money; go, sauceboxes: and so good-night, and be happy, dear rogues.

    The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901

  • So, now the puppy's come in, and I have got my own ink, but a new pen; and so now you are rogues and sauceboxes till I go to bed; for I must go study, sirrahs.

    The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901

  • Are not you sauceboxes to write "lele" [27] like Presto?

    The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901

  • Are not you sauceboxes to write "lele" [27] like Presto?

    The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706

  • -- So, now the puppy's come in, and I have got my own ink, but a new pen; and so now you are rogues and sauceboxes till I go to bed; for I must go study, sirrahs.

    The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706

  • Well, my eighth is with you now, young women; and your seventh to me is somewhere in a post-boy's bag; and so go to your gang of deans, and Stoytes, and Walls, and lose your money; go, sauceboxes: and so good-night, and be happy, dear rogues.

    The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706

  • So, now the puppy’s come in, and I have got my own ink, but a new pen; and so now you are rogues and sauceboxes till I go to bed; for I must go study, sirrahs.

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • Well, my eighth is with you now, young women; and your seventh to me is somewhere in a post-boy’s bag; and so go to your gang of deans, and Stoytes, and Walls, and lose your money; go, sauceboxes: and so good-night, and be happy, dear rogues.

    The Journal to Stella 2003

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