sassy
1- impertinent; insolent; saucy: a sassy reply; a sassy teen.
- pert; boldly smart; saucy: a sassy red handbag.
Origin of sassy
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arrant, audacious, bold, brassy, brazen, cheeky, discourteous, disrespectful, flip, flippant, fresh, insolent, mouthy, rude, saucy, wiseExamples from the Web for sassy
Contemporary Examples of sassy
Beyoncé embodied a sassy and independent Sasha Fierce and the sexually confident Yoncé.
In 1992, she was spotted by Sassy magazine, and became a model/intern for the fashion rag.
Chloe Sevigny on ‘The Cosmopolitans,’ New York’s Frat Boy Takeover, and ‘Asshole’ Michael AligMarlow Stern
August 24, 2014
Would a bisexual man be half as sassy as a gay one, or half as well dressed?
She was a sassy spitfire from Bosnia, just a few months shy of turning 18.
Is there a sassy but kindly Black female lawmaker who lives next door the quartet, speaking sense to men and not taking no guff?
‘Alpha House’ Review: Amazon’s Comedy Falls to Sitcom Predictability, Gay JokesDavid Freedlander
November 15, 2013
Historical Examples of sassy
I said go ahead and try, or words not quite so sassy but meanin' the same.
Thankful's InheritanceJoseph C. Lincoln
Why, you little sawed-off, dried-up, sassy son of a sea cook!
ShavingsJoseph C. Lincoln
I thought I'd shipped a man, but I see 'twas only a sassy baby.
Cap'n EriJoseph Crosby Lincoln
He never whipped them unless they was lazy or sassy or had a fight.
Slave Narratives, OklahomaVarious
Pretty soon he got so sassy that nobody could live with him.
Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned GentlemanF. Hopkinson Smith
sassy
1- US informal insolent, impertinent
Word Origin for sassy
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
Word Origin for sassy
Word Origin and History for sassy
1833, American English, alteration of saucy. Related: Sassily; sassiness.