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English
Pronunciation
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-æs|-æs
Noun
en-noun|-
- cheek, back-talk
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#:*"Looky here -- mind how you talk to me; I'm a- standing about all I can stand now -- so don't gimme no sass."<br>— The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, w:Mark Twain|Mark Twain
#:*"Say -- if you give me much more of your sass I'll take and bounce a rock off'n your head."<br>— The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, w:Mark Twain|Mark Twain
Verb
en-verb|sass|es
- talk, talk back
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#:*"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 ever see me and Jim again."<br>— The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
#:*"But, good land! what did he want to sass back for? You see, it couldn't do him no good, and it was just nuts for them."<br>— Tom Sawyer Abroad, Mark Twain
- (British English, slang) know, be aware of, meet, have sex with. From the popular w:Douglas Adams|Douglas Adams novel, w:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
#:The novel provides this example of its use:
#:*Hence a phrase which has passed into hitch-hiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."
See also
w:Ford Prefect (character)|Ford Prefect
frood
hoopy
towel
References
Douglas Noel Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, (Vol.1,Ch.3.p25) ISBN 0517542099
The Ultra-Complete Index to the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Matthias Maul 1992-1994.
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