sass¹

[sas] /sæs/

noun, Chiefly New England, Midland, and Southern U.S.

stewed fruit; fruit sauce.

fresh vegetables.

Origin

1765-75; variant of sauce

sass²

[sas] /sæs/

noun

impudent or disrespectful back talk:

Both parents refuse to take any sass from their kids.

verb (used with object)

to answer back in an impudent manner:

Don't sass your mother.

Origin

1855-60, Americanism; back formation from sassy¹

British Dictionary definitions for sass

sass

/sæs/

noun

insolent or impudent talk or behaviour

verb (intransitive)

to talk or answer back in such a way

Word Origin

C20: back formation from sassy1

Word Origin and History for sass

"impudence," 1835, back-formation from sassy. The verb is first recorded 1856, from the noun. Related: Sassed; sassing. Sass (n.) as a variant of sauce is attested from 1775.

Slang definitions & phrases for sass

sass

noun

Impudence; impertinent back talk: if this reporter was going to give her any sass (1835+)

verb

: He kept sassing his mama till she decked him

[fr sauce, ''rude and impudent language or action'']