Sass

name, noun, verb, slang

name, noun, verb, slang ·1 syllable ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being sassy. uncountable

    "This girl has a lot of sass."

  2. 2
    an impudent or insolent rejoinder wordnet
  3. 3
    Backtalk, cheek, sarcasm. US, uncountable

    "Say—if you give me much more of your sass I'll take and bounce a rock off'n your head."

  4. 4
    Vegetables used in making sauces. archaic, uncountable
  5. 5
    A subgenre of screamo music. uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To talk, to talk back. US, informal, intransitive

    "The duke he begun to abuse him for an old fool, and the king begun to sass back; and the minute they was fairly at it, I lit out, and shook the reefs out of my hind legs, and spun down the river road like a deer—for I see our chance; and I made up my mind that it would be a long day before they ever see me and Jim again."

  2. 2
    answer back in an impudent or insolent manner wordnet
  3. 3
    To speak insolently to. US, informal, transitive

    "Don’t sass your teachers!"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    Initialism of Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets, a style sheet language. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Synonyms

All synonyms
answer backback talkbackchatbacktalkcheekguff

Example

More examples

"None of your sass, Jasper, or I'll keelhaul you!"

Etymology

Variant of sauce.

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talk back

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