sass
noun
stewed fruit; fruit sauce.
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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This was surrounded by half the audience, anxious, I afterward learned, for a closer view of the man who had "sassed" the Manager.
From Forty Minutes Late 1909 by Francis Hopkinson Smith