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Sassing

noun
1.
An impudent or insolent rejoinder.  Synonyms: back talk, backtalk, lip, mouth, sass.


Sass

verb
1.
Answer back in an impudent or insolent manner.  "The teacher punished the students who were sassing all morning"



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"Sassing" Quotes from Famous Books



... was going to be a ruction right off. There was Carrots red-hotter than her hair; and Blister, who was special friends with Carrots, shooting mad at having anybody sassing her; and Santa Fe's forehead getting whiter and whiter; and all hands on their hind legs at having Palomitas called a slum of the wilderness—and likely worse things said about the place in words nobody'd ever heard tell of ...
— Santa Fe's Partner - Being Some Memorials of Events in a New-Mexican Track-end Town • Thomas A. Janvier
... for a carload of Spotless Snow Leaf from old Shorter is the kind of back talk I like. We can stand a little more of the same sort of sassing. I have told the cashier that you will draw thirty a week after this, and I want you to have a nice suit of clothes made and send the bill to the old man. Get something that won't keep people guessing whether you follow the horses or do buck and wing dancing for a living. ...
— Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son • George Horace Lorimer


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