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 Saucepan. To have the saucepan on the fire, verb. phr. (old).—To be set on a scolding bout.

The saucepan runs (or boils) over, phr. (old).—'You are exceeding bold.'—B. E. (c. 1696).

Saucebox, subs. (common).—The mouth.

2. See Sauce.

Saucers, subs. (common).—Eyes: spec. large, wide-opened eyes: also Saucer-eyes.

1599. Hall, Satires, VI. i. Her eyes like silver saucers faire beset.

1636. Suckling, Goblins, iv. Had we no walking fire, Nor saucer-eyed devil of these woods that led us.

1655. Massinger, A Very Woman, ii. Upon my conscience, she would see the devil first, With eyes as big as saucers; when I but named you.

1697. Vanbrugh, Relapse, v. 3. Stare you in the face with huge saucer-eyes.

1751. Smollett, Peregrine Pickle, xiii. Damn'd if it was not Davy Jones himself. I know him by his saucer-eyes.

1864. Mark Lemon, Jest Book, 185. I always know when he has been in his cups by the state of his saucers.

Saucy Greens, subs. phr. (military).—The 2nd Bat. Worcester Regiment, formerly the Thirty-Sixth Foot. [From the facings 1742-1881.]

Saucy-Jack. See Saucy, and Jack, subs., sense 8.

Saucy Pompeys. See Pompadours.

Saucy Sixth (The), subs. phr. (military).—The Royal Warwickshires, formerly The 6th Foot. Also "Guise's Geese"; and "The Warwickshire Lads."

Saucy Seventh (The Old).—The Seventh (The Queen's Own) Hussars (in the Peninsula): also "The Lily-white Seventh," "Young Eyes," "Old Straws," and "Strawboots."

Saunter, verb. (old: now recognised).—'To loiter Idly' (B. E.).

Sausage (or Live-sausage), subs. (venery).—The penis: see Prick.

1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, I. xi. Some of the other women would give these names, my Roger my lusty live sausage, my crimson chitterling.

1759-67. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, IX. 7. She made a feint, however, of defending herself by snatching up a sausage. Tom instantly laid hold of another—But seeing Tom's had more gristle in it—She signed the capitulation—and Tom seal'd it; and there was an end of the matter.

Savagerous, adv. (American).—Savage.

1847. Porter, Big Bear, 121. Well, Capting, they war mighty savagerous arter likher.

1848. Burton, Waggeries, 24. They growed so darned savagerous that I kinder feared for my own safety.

c. 1852. Traits of Amer. Humour, 53. I looked at him sorter savigerous like.

Save, verb. (racing).—To set part of one bet against another; to hedge (q.v.). [Two persons back different horses agreeing, if either wins, to give the other, say £5, who thus saves a 'fiver.' Also, as in pool, to save the stakes. Likewise to keep a certain horse on one side, not betting against it, saving it as a clear winner for oneself. Hence saver = a bet so made.

1869. Bradwood, The O. V. H., xx. Most who received the news at least saved themselves upon the outsider.