dass
/dæs/
dass verb: to dare. Also the contraction of that is.
Verb
dass (third-person singular simple present dasses, present participle dassing, simple past and past participle dassed)
- To dare.
- We all looked at one 'nother, 'n' I thought for a second somebody 'd laugh, but nobody dassed, 'n' there warn'ta sound in the room 's Aunt Beccy sot down agin' without movin' a muscle in her face.1890, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Timothy's Quest, page 58
- Gim scrached a line in the dirt and told Will not to dass to step over it and then Will put a chip on his sholeder and told Gim not to dass to nock it off1904, Henry A. Shute, Sequil Or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First, page 8
Noun capitalized: DASs
DASs
- plural of DAS
Also used as
dass is also the contraction of that is.
Examples of dass in a sentence
- "Ay, an' lost me th' ship, 'cause I'd never dassed take her wi' only twenty barrel o' bait, 'f I'd knowed th' new law.1907, Lawrence Mott, To the credit of the sea, page 72:
- You weren't smart to refuse; you could have had a peep inside the General's house, maybe, and I don't believe she'd dassed said a word about birds on hats, with one of the company wearing 'em!1907, Mabel Osgood Wright, Gray lady and the birds: stories of the bird year for home and school, page 41:
- "If anyone dasses to risk my fist, it's Boff! and it's Wham!1933, Sammy Lerner, theme from, Popeye the Sailor::
Forms of dass
| third-person singular present | dasses |
|---|---|
| present participle | dassing |
| past participle | dassed |
| past | dassed |
Origin of dass
Compare dare, darest, dast.
Pronunciation spelling of that's
Words that rhyme with dass
39 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- bagasse
- Corinthian brass
- cuirass
- en masse
- frass
- Lefkas
- madras
- morass
- Pendergrass
- volte-face
- wass
- world-class
- adder's grass
- alas
- asse
- bamboo grass
- chasse
- das
- dogtooth grass
- flyaway grass
- hey pass
- Inner Brass
- khalass
- khalassed
- lac
- lift pass
- low mass
- Neptune grass
- outclass
- Outer Brass
- Ratass
- rockmass
- saas
- shass
- tass
- tasse
- thass
- wassed
- wrasse
Questions about dass
- What does dass mean?
- Dass means to dare.
- How do you use dass in a sentence?
- "Ay, an' lost me th' ship, 'cause I'd never dassed take her wi' only twenty barrel o' bait, 'f I'd knowed th' new law.
- What part of speech is dass?
- Dass can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce dass?
- Dass is pronounced /dæs/.
- What is the past tense of dass?
- The past tense of dass is dassed.
Words near dass in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dass (page history and authors); DASs (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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