SASS

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

(noun) an impudent or insolent rejoinder; ā€œdonā€™t give me any of your sassā€

sass

(verb) answer back in an impudent or insolent manner; ā€œdonā€™t sass me!ā€; ā€œThe teacher punished the students who were sassing all morningā€

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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Word of the Day

22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ā€˜the father of the brideā€™ instead of ā€˜the brideā€™s fatherā€™


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