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▪ I. sass, n. U.S. colloq.|sæs|
Also sas.
[var. sauce n.]
1. a. = sauce n. 4 a.
1775J. Stevens Jrnl. 5 May in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1912) XLVIII. 43 Steven Barker come down & brought us som sas. 1836B. Tucker Partisan Leader II. xxxv. 124 The fellow talked to me about living at home on codfish, and potatoes, and cider, and pies, and all sorts of sass. 1860Knickerbocker July 102 White turnip, yellow turnip, or any sort of sass, long sass, or short sass. 1945M. Lyon Fresh from Hills iv. 46 A family could get along without garden sass.
b. = sauce n. 4 b.
1913H. Kephart Our Southern Highlanders xiii. 293 Your hostess, proffering apple sauce, will ask, ‘Do you love sass?’
2. = sauce n. 6 b.
1835[see chunk v.1 1]. 1853G. C. Hill Dovecote 88 I've a precious good mind to duck you for your sass! 1876‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer i. 23 If you give me much more of your sass I'll take and bounce a rock off'n your head. 1880J. C. Harris Uncle Remus iv. 31 Brer Rabbit wuz bleedzed fer ter fling back some er his sass. 1897‘O. Thanet’ Missionary Sheriff 21, I shall take more advantage of it if you give me any sass. 1935J. T. Farrell Judgement Day ii. 25 It must have been something of the old Studs Lonigan left in him that led to his not taking sass, risking a fight. 1967P. Welles Babyhip iii. 46 Is this what we get? Sass? No gratitude. 1977Time 3 Jan. 21/1 If she's mostly given over now to laughter, pride and sass, she has earned her fun.
▪ II. sass, v. U.S. colloq.|sæs|
[var. sauce v.]
1. trans. = sauce v. 4 d.
1856‘J. Phoenix’ Phoenixiana xvi. 125 While the squire..sasses all respectable persons With his talk of pills he's invented. 1867‘Mark Twain’ Celebr. Jumping Frog 166 You ought never to ‘sass’ old people—unless they ‘sass’ you first. 1887M. E. Wilkins Humble Romance i. 9 An' she might sass you so you'd be ready to back out, too. 1896N.Y. Dramatic News 18 July 2/3 When he was requested to desist he ‘sassed’ the officer. 1920S. Lewis Main Street ix. 118 There had to be one man in town independent enough to sass the banker! 1929W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 67 Dont you sass me, nigger boy. 1956W. H. Whyte Organization Man (1957) vii. xxvi. 358 If little Johnny sasses Mrs. Erdlick just once more. 1966K. L. Morgan in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 602/1 She wanted to know if it was all right to ‘sass’ the woman the way she did since she was ‘trash’. 1978J. A. Michener Chesapeake 536 ‘But, Missy, I done clean it.’ ‘Don't you sass me!’ she screamed.
2. intr. To speak impertinently; to sass back, to reply impertinently, to ‘answer back’.
1880J. C. Harris Uncle Remus iv. 29 You been runnin' roun' here sassin' after me a mighty long time. 1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn (1885) xxvii. 237 The king sassed back, as much as was safe for him. 1891O. W. Holmes Over Teacups 154, I suppose Me-Number-Two will ‘sass back’. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 24 July 10/3 No teacher chooses to teach students who are sleeping or throwing chalk or sassing.
Hence ˈsassing vbl. n.
1962W. H. Gass in Foley & Burnett Best Amer. Short Stories 112 Listen to me, Jorge, I've had enough to your sassing. 1967P. Welles Babyhip iii. 48 ‘Don't you get hysterics,’ Mrs Green warned, ‘or I'll throw cold water on you. I'll have none of this sassing.’ 1977New Yorker 6 June 48/3 Far worse than any welts he ever got when his father or Abel beat him in the shed for misbehaving or sassing. |