sassy
1[sas-ee]
- impertinent; insolent; saucy: a sassy reply; a sassy teen.
- pert; boldly smart; saucy: a sassy red handbag.
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Origin of sassy
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Related Words for sassiest
arrant, audacious, bold, brassy, brazen, cheeky, discourteous, disrespectful, flip, flippant, fresh, insolent, mouthy, rude, saucy, wiseExamples from the Web for sassiest
Contemporary Examples of sassiest
Her 10-year-old daughter Piper is fast eclipsing her mother as the sassiest presence on the "One Nation" bus tour.
Historical Examples of sassiest
The "sassiest" man in any community is the hen-pecked husband away from home.
sassy
1- US informal insolent, impertinent
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Word Origin for sassy
C19: variant of saucy
sassy
2sasswood (ˈsæsˌwʊd) or sassy wood
- a W African leguminous tree, Erythrophleum guineense, with poisonous bark (sassy bark) and hard strong wood
- the bark or wood of this tree or the alkaloid derived from them, which is sometimes used in medicine
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Word Origin for sassy
C19: probably from a language of the Kwa family: compare Twi sese plane tree, Ewe sesewu a kind of timber tree
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Word Origin and History for sassiest
sassy
1833, American English, alteration of saucy. Related: Sassily; sassiness.
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