sassy1
[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 sassy1
sassy2
[sas-ee]
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Origin of sassy2
First recorded in 1855–60; of uncertain origin
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Examples from the Web for sassy
Contemporary Examples
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
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
sassy1
- US informal insolent, impertinent
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Word Origin
C19: variant of saucy
sassy2
sasswood (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
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 sassy
adj.
1833, American English, alteration of saucy. Related: Sassily; sassiness.
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