Word Meanings - SAUCEBOX - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A saucy, impudent person; especially, a pert child. Saucebox, go, meddle with your lady's fan, And prate not here! A. Brewer.
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- CHILDSHIP
The state or relation of being a child. - IMPUDENT
Bold, with contempt or disregard; unblushingly forward; impertinent; wanting modesty; shameless; saucy. More than impudent sauciness. Shak. When we behold an angel, not to fear Is to be impudent. Dryden. Syn. -- Shameless; audacious; brazen; - CHILDISHNESS
The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect. - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - CHILDED
Furnished with a child. - CHILDBIRTH
The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor. - BREWER
One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors. - CHILDISH
1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who - PRATER
One who prates. Shak. - CHILD STUDY
A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - PERSONATE
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton. - PERSONATOR
One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson. - MEDDLER
One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody. - CHILDCROWING
The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup. - MEDDLESOME
Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive. -- Med"dle*some*ness, n. - PERSONAL
Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, - PERSONIFY
1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law. - PERSONIFIER
One who personifies. - GODCHILD
One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather. - INTERMEDDLE
To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon. Syn. -- To - CONSTUPRATE
To ravish; to debauch. Burton. - UNIPERSONAL
Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God. - UNIPERSONALIST
One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal.