Sass

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /sæs/
• Rhymes: -æs
• Rhymes: -ɑːs

Origin

Variant of sauce

Full definition of sass

Noun

1. (US) sarcasm, backtalk, cheek.
• Twain Sawyer“Say — if you give me much more of your sass I’ll take and bounce a rock off’n your head.”
• Twain Huckleberry“Looky here — mind how you talk to me; I’m a-standing about all I can stand now — so don’t gimme no sass.”

Derived terms

• sassy

Verb

1. (US) To talk, to talk back.
• Twain Huckleberry“The duke he begun to abuse him for an old fool, and the king begun to sass back, and the minute they was fairly at it I lit out and shook the reefs out of my hind legs, and spun down the river road like a deer, for I see our chance; and I made up my mind that it would be a long day before they ever see me and Jim again.”
• Twain Sawyer Abroad“But, good land! what did he want to sass back for? You see, it couldn’t do him no good, and it was just nuts for them.”