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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

... Jock rolled from side to side. "If you don't beat all for gol-durned sass. Why, Tate will sue you for damages if that great American novel ever strikes his vision. Oil! Thunderation; and poisonous whiskey, and doctored beer. Was it Society or Settlement what let light in on you, about ...

— Joyce of the North Woods • Harriet T. Comstock

... there my yolk; And I felt my yellow streaming Through my white; And the dream that I was dreaming Of posterity was broke In a night. Then from the papyrus-patch By the rising waters rolled, Passing many a temple old, I proceeded to the sea. Memnon sang, one morn, to me, And I heard Cambyses sass ...

— Black Beetles in Amber • Ambrose Bierce

... repels, und vhere dey kits deir sass? If dey make a run on Breitmann he'll soon let out de gas; I'll shplit dem like kartoffels; I'll schlog em on de kop; I'll set de plackguarts roonin' so, dey don't ...

— The Breitmann Ballads • Charles G. Leland

... Rodrigues sass eines Tages unter der grossen schattigen Figueira,[56] welche das Wahrzeichen der Estancia[57] Sao Manoel bildete. Er berechnete eben, wie viel Schlachtvieh er dieses Jahr verkaufen koennte, und fand, dass es mindestens 700 Stueck seien. Das gab ein schoenes Haeufchen Geld; denn ...

— The German Element in Brazil - Colonies and Dialect • Benjamin Franklin Schappelle

... to cut nobody's throat, but we've got to sass 'em on the Twelfth to keep up the glorious, pious and immortal memory, and to whistle 'em down 'The Protestant Boys.' We've got three fifes and three ...

— Two Knapsacks - A Novel of Canadian Summer Life • John Campbell

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