saucebox personality
- noun
- Slang
:
personalidad habladora
- Even in serious meetings, her saucebox personality lightened the mood and encouraged conversation.
Examples
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Her saucebox personality always keeps the conversation lively.
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People were drawn to his saucebox personality and infectious laughter.
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Her saucebox personality made everyone feel welcome at the party.
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My friend has a saucebox personality.
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Even in serious meetings, her saucebox personality lightened the mood and encouraged conversation.
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People were drawn to his saucebox personality and infectious laughter.
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Her saucebox personality made everyone feel welcome at the party.
Synonyms
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A person who talks a lot and often does not stop
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A person who is cheerful, lively, and outgoing
A person who talks a lot in a loud or rude way
A cheerful, talkative person who makes others feel happy
A cheerful person who talks in a lively, happy way
Antonyms
How Talkative
- Informal
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- Slang
- Informal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
saucebox + personality
The key element 'saucebox' is slang/idiomatic and not a transparent, productive compound whose meaning ('cheeky, talkative') can be built straightforwardly from 'sauce' + 'box'. While 'personality' is transparent, the overall sense relies on an unpredictable slang headword, so a B1 learner knowing the constituents would not reliably infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
The expression saucebox personality may come from a simple picture: one popular story says people called a cheeky mouth a saucebox — a box that gives out sauce, meaning bold or cheeky talk. So a person with a saucebox personality speaks in a lively, cheeky way, which is why it means 'lively and talkative' today.