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sass
1[ sas ]
noun
- stewed fruit; fruit sauce.
- fresh vegetables.
sass
2[ sas ]
noun
- impudent or disrespectful back talk:
Both parents refuse to take any sass from their kids.
verb (used with object)
- to answer back in an impudent manner:
Don't sass your mother.
sass
/ sæs /
noun
- insolent or impudent talk or behaviour
verb
- to talk or answer back in such a way
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of sass1
Example Sentences
In conclusion, she says with more than a hint of sass, “For all the cranky, musty, dusty adults out there who think little kids shouldn’t be using skin care ... get it together!”
By the 1950s, she was as famous for her sex appeal as she was for her sass, on Broadway, television and touring nationally as a singer on the nightclub circuit.
He can’t do that with his own brother, but with Skip, he can sass him back.
There was gloss and sass to leaven the tough stuff.
He had sassed a white woman, was lynched and shot full of holes, and his bloody clothes were left in the Decatur fairgrounds for a year.
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