sassy
/ˈsasi
/adjective (sassier, sassiest) informal
Lively, bold, and full of spirit; cheeky: Toni was smart and sassy and liked to pretend she was a hard nut...
- In other words this is sassy, bold, sophisticated cooking.
- She manages a brash, confident, and sassy manner that works well in the part, but is not overdone to the point of being unwelcome.
- She took a few sassy steps forward and then stopped in the middle of the space between them all.
Derivatives
sassily
- ‘It's like everywhere else: certain kinds of music become fashionable, so everybody goes out and buys it,’ she remarks sassily.
- ‘I'm trying to be lady-like and not stuff my face like you heathens,’ I replied sassily.
- She just flipped her long blonde curls sassily and flirted her ocean blue eyes, which were framed by long, mascaraed eyelashes.
sassiness
- They are only in their 20s and there's a freshness and sassiness in their art.
- There was a freshness and sassiness to the production - a sense that the film-makers were thumbing their noses at serious action movies by juicing up the admittedly silly premise of a '70s girl-power TV show.
- Every now and then you still get a glimpse of the old frontier sassiness.
Origin
Mid 19th century: variant of saucy.
Rhymes
- narcissus complex
- narcissus-flowered anemone
- narcissus fly
- Narcissus-like
- narcistic
- narco
- narco-
- narcocorrido
- narcocracy
- narcokleptocracy
- narcolepsy
- narcolept
- narcoleptic
- narcological
- narcologist
- narcology
- narcomania
- narcomaniac
- narcomedusa
- Narcomedusae
- narcomedusan
- narcosis
- narcosis therapy
- narco-state
- narcosynthesis