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Jack-sauce (n.)
Old form(s):
Iacke sawce
saucy knave, impudent fellow
H5 IV.vii.138
[Fluellen to King Henry, of Williams' challenger] If he be perjured ... his reputation is as arrant a villain and a Jack-sauce as ever his black shoe trod upon God's ground