sassed

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
2. (US, informal, transitive) To speak insolently to.
   • Don’t sass your teachers!

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