noun
- plural of saucebox; people who are impudent or cheeky in speech
Usage: informal; somewhat dated
Examples
- The teacher had to deal with several sauceboxes in her class.
- Those little sauceboxes kept talking back to their parents.
- Don’t be such sauceboxes when adults are speaking.
- The principal called the troublemakers a bunch of sauceboxes.
- My grandmother would never tolerate sauceboxes at the dinner table.