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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

... not sass the king, and then, when the king came in the office the next day and stopped his paper and took out his ad., put it off on "our informant" and go right along with the paper. You had to go to jail, while your subscribers wondered why their ...

— Comic History of the United States • Bill Nye

... the order to Harry word for word, adding: "Don't you sass back, Marse Harry—let him blow hisse'f out—he don't mean nothin'. He's dat mad he's crazy—gits dat way sometimes—den purty soon he's fit to bust hisse'f wide open a-cryin'! I see him do dat once when you warn't mo'n so high, and de doctor said ...

— Kennedy Square • F. Hopkinson Smith

... Andy. "Well, you see, the lynx is the slyest thing that goes on four legs. You think, maybe, a fox is sly. That fool guide Bill's told you that. Now, a fox is sly when he chooses to be, and when he wants to be impudent he'd sass King Solomon to his face. But a lynx is just born sly, and can't even ...

— Children of the Wild • Charles G. D. Roberts

... hosses' manes an' tails—muled every durned critter uv 'em. Stranger, hit was Abe. An' as fer women-folks—well, Abe was the ill favoredest feller I ever see, an' he couldn't talk; still, Abe was sassy, an' you know how sass counts with the gals; an' Abe's whisperin' come in jes as handy as any feller's settin' up; so 'f ever you seed a man with a Winchester a-lookin' fer the feller who had cut him out, stranger, he was ...

— 'Hell fer Sartain' and Other Stories • John Fox, Jr.

... and 'phone when I tell you to; see?" said our friend, the manual training teacher. "And you ain't going to give me no sass neither, understand? I don't let kids tell ...

— Pee-wee Harris on the Trail • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

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