sass
see also: Sass
Pronunciation
Sass
Proper noun
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see also: Sass
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /sæs/
sass (uncountable)
- (US) Backtalk, cheek, sarcasm.
- 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter I, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, OCLC 1000326417 ↗, page 23 ↗:
- Say—if you give me much more of your sass I'll take and bounce a rock off'n your head.
- 1884 December 9, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter V, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 458431182 ↗, page 33 ↗:
- Looky here—mind how you talk to me; I’m a-standing about all I can stand now—so don’t gimme no sass.
- (archaic) Vegetables used in making sauces.
- French: culot, toupet
- Portuguese: atrevimento
- Russian: де́рзость
- Spanish: descaro, descoco
sass (sasses, present participle sassing; past and past participle sassed)
- (intransitive, US, informal) To talk#Verb|talk, to talk back.
- 1884 December 9, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXI, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 458431182 ↗, page 316 ↗:
- 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.
- 1894, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
- “But, good land! what did he want to sass back for? You see, it couldn’t do him no good, and it was just nuts for them.”
- (transitive, US, informal) To speak insolently to.
- Don’t sass your teachers!
- French: contredire, protester, répondre
- Portuguese: responder
- Russian: дерзи́ть
Sass
Proper noun
- (Web design) Initialism of Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets a style sheet language
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