sass
/sæs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.98 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
name
Initialism of Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets, a style sheet language.
Example Sentences
- "This girl has a lot of sass."
- "Say—if you give me much more of your sass I'll take and bounce a rock off'n your head."
- "Looky here—mind how you talk to me; I’m a-standing about all I can stand now—so don’t gimme no sass."
- "Talk-back or sass per Bell Hooks is "a gesture of defiance that heals...liberated voice" […]"
- "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."
- "“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.”"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /sæs/