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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Impertinent, disrespectful speech; back talk.
  2. v. To talk impudently to.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same as sauce.
  2. n. Vegetables, particularly those used in making sauces: as, garden sass.
  3. n. Insolence; impudence.
  4. To talk or reply saucily; be insolent in replying.
  5. To sauce; be saucy to.

Wiktionary

  1. n. sarcasm, backtalk, cheek.
  2. v. To talk, to talk back.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. answer back in an impudent or insolent manner
  2. n. an impudent or insolent rejoinder

Etymologies

  1. Back-formation from sassy1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “This was to have happened in 2004, but there was so much sass from the people that it was put off till 09.”

    End of analog broadcast TV in USA approaches

  • “That's the stuff for my money!" replied her brother; "'taters and apple-sass is my sass in the winter.”

    The Wide, Wide World

  • “Myer snaps up sass & bide for $42.5m MYER has announced its $42.5 million purchase of high-end women's fashion label sass & bide.”

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  • “It's good those is easy got," said his sister Mary; "the sass is the most of the dinner to Bob most commonly.”

    The Wide, Wide World

  • “It's good those is easy got," said his sister Mary; "the sass is the most of the dinner to Bob, most commonly.”

    The Wide, Wide World

  • “The best part of my Mother's Day was listening to my granddaughter give my daughter the kind of sass she used to give me.”

    Dear God... (the stick turned blue)

  • “Software as a Service SaaS, typically pronounced 'sass' is a model of software deployment whereby a provider licenses an application to customers for use as a service on demand”

    notes on cloud computing

  • “It takes the Sasquatch out of the -- takes the "sass" out of the "squatch" or something.”

    CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2008

  • “However, the sass has been a bit lacking in the first 2 films * sigh* so I’ll just throw my vote for the fight scene with the newborns.”

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  • “These trees are usually good standard varieties which have been the source of much apple "sass," many an apple pie, and many a barrel of cider-vinegar.”

    Apple Growing

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hypernyms (10)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. respond
  2. answer
  1. reply
  2. comeback
  1. replication
  2. retort
  1. riposte
  2. counter
  1. return
  2. rejoinder

same context (22)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. nuf
  2. nacheral
  3. waspishness
  4. humpy
  1. expat
  2. slam-bang
  3. vernaccia
  4. fergit
  1. abjection
  2. fanfaronade
  3. bot
  4. petri
  1. posy
  2. galingale
  3. rhodomontade
  4. machismo
  1. iph
  2. krout
  3. ober
  4. hepatica
  1. Pavlova
  2. camwood

rhymes (52)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Alsace
  2. Cass
  3. Glass
  4. Grass
  5. Grasse
  6. Jas
  7. Mass
  8. Mass.
  9. Nass
  10. Pass
  1. Ras
  2. Tass
  3. alas
  4. amass
  5. ass
  6. bass
  7. basse
  8. bras
  9. brass
  10. chasse
  1. class
  2. contrasts
  3. crass
  4. das
  5. dass
  6. fass
  7. forecasts
  8. gas
  9. glas
  10. glass
  1. grass
  2. harass
  3. hass
  4. impasse
  5. jas
  6. jass
  7. lambastes
  8. lass
  9. last
  10. mass
  1. masse
  2. middle-class
  3. morass
  4. outlasts
  5. pass
  6. ras
  7. repass
  8. sas
  9. sasse
  10. smartass
  1. surpass
  2. tass

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