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Sass

noun

An impudent or insolent rejoinder. Synonyms: back talk, backtalk, lip, mouth, sassing.

verb

Answer back in an impudent or insolent manner. "The teacher punished the students who were sassing all morning"

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"Sass" Quotes from Famous Books

... it'll come a little bit awkward at first. Seem like I never will git so thet I can sass back in church 'thout feelin' sort o' impident—but I reckon I'll chirp up an' come ...

— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)

... a corporal seriously except the corporal himself," drawled Hyman. "A corporal in the Army is only a small-fry boss. He's handy to lay the blame on for things, and he doesn't dare to 'sass' back. Neither does the corporal dare to 'take it out of' the private soldiers in his squad, for, if he did, the privates would report him and have him court-martialed. Kids, I'm growing rather tired of being a corporal. I think I'll go ...

— Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants - or, Handling Their First Real Commands • H. Irving Hancock

... and 'phone when I tell you to; see?" said our friend, the manual training teacher. "And you ain't going to give me no sass neither, understand? I don't let kids tell me ...

— Pee-wee Harris on the Trail • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... Brod mit Thraenen ass, Wer nicht die kummervollen Naechte Auf seinem Bette weinend sass, Der kennt ...

— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett

... Suez ditch, after having seen ELKANAH HOPKINS' plans for our great Cape Cod Canal. Vessels will hereafter pass through this Canal instead of taking the long voyage around the Cape; and it is believed that the saving which will be effected in the transportation of cod-fish and garden-sass by the consequent shortening of the voyage, will be something enormous. There are those who believe that the Canal will yield a yearly revenue of from eighty to ninety dollars in tolls alone. It is understood that the European ...

— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 8, May 21, 1870 • Various

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