SASS

sass, sassing, backtalk, back talk, lip, mouth

(noun) an impudent or insolent rejoinder; “don’t give me any of your sass”

sass

(verb) answer back in an impudent or insolent manner; “don’t sass me!”; “The teacher punished the students who were sassing all morning”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

sass (uncountable)

(US) Backtalk, cheek, sarcasm.

(archaic) Vegetables used in making sauces.

Verb

sass (third-person singular simple present sasses, present participle sassing, simple past and past participle sassed)

(intransitive, US, informal) To talk, to talk back.

(transitive, US, informal) To speak insolently to.

Proper noun

Sass

A surname.

(Web design) Initialism of Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (a style sheet language)

Source: Wiktionary



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