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Sass

noun

An impudent or insolent rejoinder. Synonyms: back talk, backtalk, lip, mouth, sassing.

verb

Answer back in an impudent or insolent manner. "The teacher punished the students who were sassing all morning"

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"Sass" Quotes from Famous Books

... call a gal—ez pretty and plump ez a quail; Teeth ez white ez a hound's, and they'd go through a ten-penny nail; Eyes that kin snap like a cap. So she asked to know "whar I was hid?" She did! Oh, it's jist like her sass, for ...

— Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte • Bret Harte

... Brod mit Thraenen ass, Wer nie die kummervollen Naechte Auf seinen Bette weinend sass, Er kennt Euch nicht, ihr ...

— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... the car was full, and when she insisted on remaining, he persuaded her to go into the car where she belonged. Thereupon a young sprig, from the East, blustered like a Shanghai rooster, and began to sass the conductor with his chin music. That gentleman delivered the young aspirant for a muss one of his elegant little left-handers, which so astonished him that he began to feel for his shooter. Whereupon ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... says, the cultivation of man is as noble and praiseworthy a science, as the cultivation of cabbage, or the garden sass! Says brother Theodore, "You don't cast garden-seed in the mire, over the rough broken ground, and exhibit your benefits. No, you dig, level, rake, and then sow your seed, you give them sunshine and water, you tear out the weeds that would choke your infant vegetables—why would you do less ...

— The Humors of Falconbridge - A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes • Jonathan F. Kelley

... impudent, Bill Morris," he said. "I haven't anything to do with you, but I sha'n't let you sass me." ...

— The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus • Horatio Alger Jr.

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