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sassing

sassing is the present participle and gerund of sass.

Meaning of sass

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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Questions about sassing

What is sassing the present participle and gerund of?
Sassing is the present participle and gerund of sass.

Words near sassing in the dictionary

  1. Sassi
  2. sassier
  3. sassiest
  4. sassily
  5. sassiness
  6. sassing
  7. sassinger
  8. sassingers
  9. Sassis
  10. Sassnitz
  11. Sasso

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