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sass

/sæs/

sass noun: the quality of being sassy.

Noun

sass (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being sassy.
    • This girl has a lot of sass.
    Synonyms:
    sassiness
  2. (US) Backtalk, cheek, sarcasm.
    • Say—if you give me much more of your sass I'll take and bounce a rock off'n your head.1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter I, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 23
    • Looky here—mind how you talk to me; I’m a-standing about all I can stand now—so don’t gimme no sass.1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter V, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 33
  3. (archaic) Vegetables used in making sauces.
  4. A subgenre of screamo music.

Verb

sass (third-person singular simple present sasses, present participle sassing, simple past and past participle sassed)

  1. (US, informal, intransitive) To talk, to talk back.
    • 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...1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXI, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 316
    • “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.”1894, Mark Twain, chapter 2, in Tom Sawyer Abroad
  2. (US, informal, transitive) To speak insolently to.
    • Don’t sass your teachers!
    • “This isn’t any of your business, Ilse Burnley,” muttered Jennie, sullenly.
      “Oh, isn’t it? Don’t you sass me, Piggy-eyes.” Ilse walked up to the retreating Jennie and shook a sunburned fist in her face.1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon

Proper noun capitalized: Sass

Sass

  1. A surname.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets, a style sheet language.

sass meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam

sass in Hindi

सैस

sass in Marathi

सॅस

sass in Bengali

স্যাস

sass in Malayalam

സാസ്സ്

Synonyms of sass

Forms of sass

third-person singular presentsasses
present participlesassing
past participlesassed
pastsassed

Origin of sass

Variant of sauce.

Words formed from sass

Words that rhyme with sass

39 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about sass

What does sass mean?
Sass means the quality of being sassy.
What is sass in Hindi?
Sass in Hindi is सैस. See Sass meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sass?
Sass can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce sass?
Sass is pronounced /sæs/ (UK).

Words near sass in the dictionary

  1. SASP
  2. sasparilla
  3. sasparillas
  4. sasquatch
  5. sasquatches
  6. sass
  7. sassabies
  8. sassaby
  9. sassabye
  10. sassabyes
  11. sassafac

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sass (page history and authors); Sass (page history and authors); sass (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sass (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sass (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sass (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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