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sass¹
- /sæs/ UK
Rhymes with -æs
Where it comes from
Variant of sauce.
noun
-
The quality of being sassy.
This girl has a lot of sass.
Similar: sassiness
- Backtalk, cheek, sarcasm. Say—if you give me much more of your sass I'll take and bounce a rock off'n your head.
- Vegetables used in making sauces. ‘We cooked up some garden sass to feed the kids with.’
- A subgenre of screamo music.
verb sasses · sassing · sassed
- To talk, to talk back. 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
- To speak insolently to. Don’t sass your teachers!
Sass²
proper noun
- A surname.
- Initialism of Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets, a style sheet language.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: backtalk, lip, mouth, impudence, defy, impertinence, freshness, cheek, airlock, sauce, back-chat, backchat, back chat, snark, back talk, sarcasm
Translations
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noun backtalk, cheek, sarcasm
| Español | descaro, descoco, picaresca, procacidad |
|---|---|
| Português | atrevimento |
| Français | culot, toupet |
| Deutsch | Frechheit, Unverschämtheit |
| Русский | де́рзость dérzostʹ |
verb talk back
| Português | responder |
|---|---|
| Français | contredire, protester, répondre |
| Русский | дерзи́ть derzítʹ, наха́льничать naxálʹničatʹ, пререка́ться prerekátʹsja, препира́ться prepirátʹsja, говори́ть де́рзости govorítʹ dérzosti |
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