sass
1stewed fruit; fruit sauce.
fresh vegetables.
Origin of sass
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Other definitions for sass (2 of 2)
impudent or disrespectful back talk: Both parents refuse to take any sass from their kids.
to answer back in an impudent manner: Don't sass your mother.
Origin of sass
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How to use sass in a sentence
The richness of the starter, offered with grilled bread, is foiled by the sass of sriracha.
Like a good neighbor, Pennyroyal Station is there for you | Tom Sietsema | January 22, 2021 | Washington PostWe use them in memes and GIFs to put a generic face to anger and sass, to sauciness and craven desire.
Zach Galifianakis invited the president to chat on his Internet talk show “Between Two Ferns,” and boy, did Obama sass Zach back.
Obama ‘Between Two Ferns,’ Kevin Bacon, Baby Tigers and More Viral Videos | Ariana Dickey | March 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere was even some unexpected sass, like when she totally dissed Liza Minnelli.
Oscars 2014 Best Moments: Lupita Wins, Pink Sings & One Epic Selfie | Kevin Fallon | March 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCleanses can also serve as a fresh start and a transition into a long-term, health way of eating, says sass.
The ladies brought their A game with smarts, female sensibility, and sass showing in spades.
Candy Crowley, Martha Raddatz: Female Moderators Rocked the Boat in Debates | Lauren Ashburn | October 24, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTEvery woman on the planet has sass and smart-ass qualities in them, but it seems sometimes only black women are defined by it.
‘Community’: Alison Brie, Yvette Nicole Brown, Gillian Jacobs & Megan Ganz Roundtable | Jace Lacob | February 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMis' Calvert, the old lady, she sent me to fetch this basket o' garden sass to Mis' Chester: an' this letter was for you, sir.
Dorothy at Skyrie | Evelyn RaymondI want to hear that man sass you over the phone, if he can get in a word edgewise, and you on the other end of the line.
David Lannarck, Midget | George S. HarneyIf you don't 'tend to your bizness, or give me any more o' your sass, I'll pound the melt out o' you.
Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) | John McElroyHe hab swore a blue streak at him, and called him a d—— ab'lishener, jess 'cause Massa K—— wudn't get mad and sass him back.
Kingdom come, is yo' gittin' ter de pint when yo' kin see sich gwines-on an' not r'ar right spang up an' sass dat 'oman?
Peggy Stewart at School | Gabrielle E. Jackson
British Dictionary definitions for sass
/ (sæs) US and Canadian informal /
insolent or impudent talk or behaviour
to talk or answer back in such a way
Origin of sass
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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