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单词 saucepot
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saucepotn.

Brit. /ˈsɔːspɒt/, U.S. /ˈsɔsˌpɑt/, /ˈsɑsˌpɑt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sauce n., pot n.1
Etymology: < sauce n. + pot n.1 In sense 2 after sauce n. 8; compare earlier saucebox n.
1. A pot for cooking or serving sauce. In later use more generally: a metal cooking pot that may be used for cooking any food, typically having a lid and a handle or handles; a stewpot or saucepan.In quot. 1516 probably: a pot for serving sauce at the table.
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1516 in W. Herbert Hist. 12 Great Livery Companies London (1836) II. (modernized text) 244 [The charges of drinking and dinner on St. Dunstan's day.] Paid to Hoome, chandler... For 4 jelly pots..0s 4d..For 8 sauce pots..0s 4d.
1758 T. Wise Newest Young Man's Compan. 339 Brass and Copper, cast,..as pots, sauce-pots, kettles, &c.
1877 G. N. Bankes Day of My Life iii. 21 The sauce-pot doesn't matter so much, as it's only to boil eggs in, but I must get my fag to wash the frying-pan out.
1998 BBC Vegetarian Good Food Sept. 31/1 (advt.) The set includes:-..15cm saucepot..24cm stockpot..and 28cm saute pan with lid.
2014 Epicure (Singapore) Feb. 86/1 Drizzle olive oil over the oxtail pieces and roast till golden brown... Transfer the meat and drippings to a large saucepot.
2. colloquial (now chiefly British). A person regarded as saucy or cheeky, esp. an impudent child or (now often) a flirtatious young woman. Also as a form of address. Cf. saucebox n.
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1890 Salt Lake Daily Tribune 16 Feb. ‘Carlotta once spoke impudently to Ruperto... Is it not so, little sauce-pot?’.. ‘Si si Senor.’
1972 R. Godden Diddakoi (1998) iii. 60 None of your lip, saucepot;..you'll behave, or you'll disgrace us at the meeting.
1998 J. Milne Alive & Kicking xxiii. 166 Don't swear at me, you saucepot.
2004 Loaded Mar. 88/2 Her radical image change from teen-saucepot..to mad-for-it ultra-vixen.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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