subs. (old).—An impudent fellow; a SAUCE-BOX (q.v.).

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  1571.  EDWARDS, Damon and Pithias (DODSLEY, Old Plays, i. 271).

          Grim.  Heere is a gay world! boyes now set old men to scoole:
I sayd wel inough; what, JACK-SAWCE, think’st cham a fool?

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  1593.  G. HARVEY, Pierce’s Supererogation, in Works (GROSART) ii. 328. A JACK-SAUCE, or vnmannerly puppy.

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  1597–8.  HAUGHTON, A Woman will have her Will, vi., 2 [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, x. 537].

                            Well, JACK-SAUCE,
The rogue is waking yet to spoil your sport.

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  1599.  SHAKESPEARE, Henry V., iv. 7. If he be perjured, see you now, his reputation is as arrant a villain, and a JACK SAUCE, as ever … trod upon God’s ground and his earth, in my conscience la.

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  1602.  J. COOKE, How a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad, v., 1 [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, ix. 78]. Mrs Ma. Why, you JACKSAUCE! you cuckold! you what-not!

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  1612.  FIELD, A Woman is a Weathercock, ii. i. What say ye, JACK SAUCE.

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  1620.  JOSEPH HALL, The Honour of the Maried Clergie, ii. § 12. Every JACK-SAUCE of Rome shall thus odiously dare to controll and disgrace it.

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  1633.  JONSON, The Tale of a Tub, iii. 1. D. Tur. Come up, JACK SAUCE.

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  1638.  RANDOLPH, The Muse’s Looking-Glass, iv. 4. Such a JACK-SAUCE.

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  1659.  MASSINGER, The City Madam, iv. 2.

        Do you so, JACK SAUCE!
I’ll keep them further off.

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  1702.  VANBRUGH, The False Friend, iii. 2. Why how now, JACK-SAUCE? why how now, Presumption?

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  1719.  D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, v. 289.

        A Sword and Buckler good and strong,
  To give JACK SAUCE a rap.

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