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Definition: Sass |
SassNoun1. An impudent or insolent rejoinder; "don't give me any of your sass". Verb1. Answer back in an impudent or insolent manner; "don't sass me!"; "The teacher punished the students who were sassing all morning";. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sass" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Census | (Schools and Staffing Survey) A survey conducted for the National Center for Educational Statistics, Department of Education by the Demographic Surveys Division. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SASS | English | Seasat-A Scatterometer System | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: SassSynonyms: back talk (n), backtalk (n), lip (n), mouth (n), sassing (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sass |
| Non-English Usage: "Sass" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Lombard (rock). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Don't sass your Auntie (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) | |
Movie/TV Titles | St. Sass (2002) Sass (2001) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Sass" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Sass" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "sass" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sass | Last name | 1,000 | 7,725 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sass": sass-box. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
sass | 378 | hans martin sass | 3 |
sass jordan | 146 | corporation sass | 3 |
bide sass | 31 | alias sass | 3 |
jordon sass | 13 | clothing sass | 3 |
louis sass | 11 | bounty hunter sass | 3 |
jan sass | 11 | klass sass | 2 |
sass hotel | 10 | nasty sass | 2 |
sass n class | 10 | class figurine n sass | 2 |
sass shoes | 10 | henke sass wolf | 2 |
jordan lyrics sass | 8 | jordan photo sass | 2 |
gisele sass | 8 | annie by class lee n sass | 2 |
sass wire | 7 | daniel sass | 2 |
bob sass | 5 | jordan sass tab | 2 |
jordan picture sass | 4 | kit.fsbusiness.co.uk sass | 2 |
home page sass | 4 | pordoi sass | 2 |
jorden sass | 4 | sylvia sass | 2 |
annie class lee n sass | 4 | guitar jordan sass tab | 2 |
md sass | 3 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "sass"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | отвръщам нахално, отвръщам дръзко (answer back, retort, talk back), нахален отговор, дързък отговор (backchat, retort), дръзки приказки. (various references) | |
Farsi | گستاخانه سخن گفتن با, بیشرمانه گفتگوکردن , بابی احترامی صحبت کردن با. (various references) | |
German | frechheit (barefacedness, brashness, brass, cheek, cheekiness, effrontery, freshness, frivolity, gall, immodesty, impudence, insolence, naughtiness, nerve, ribaldry, sassiness, sauce, sauciness), frech antworten (talk back). (various references) | |
Hungarian | visszabeszélés (back-chat, backtalk), pofázás (bluster, lip), pofátlan (unabashed, unashamed). (various references) | |
Italian | insolenza (contumely, hubris, insolence). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asssay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | insolência (audacity, cockiness, contumely, insolence, mouth, pride, rudeness, sauce). (various references) | |
Russian | огрызаться резкость. (various references) | |
Spanish | hablar con descaro a. (various references) | |
Thai | พู"อย่างยโสโอหัง. (various references) | |
Turkish | sululuk (juiciness, sauce, sauciness, washiness), sos (condiment, dip, gravy, sauce, seasoning), şımarıklık (conceit, pertness, sauce, sauciness, waywardness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sass": sassabies, sassaby, sassafras, sassafrases, sassed, sasses, sassier, sassies, sassiest, sassily, sassing, sasswood, sasswoods, sassy. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sass": assassin, assassinate, assassinated, assassinates, assassinating, assassination, assassinations, assassinator, assassinators, assassins, disassemble, disassembled, disassembles, disassemblies, disassembling, disassembly, disassociate, disassociated, disassociates, disassociating, disassociation, disassociations, misassay, misassayed, misassaying, misassays, misassemble, misassembled, misassembles, misassembling, misassumption, misassumptions. (additional references) | |
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"Sass" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aass, assas, Assc, assos, essas, esss, isas, osas, saas, sads, sahs, Sansisu, Saos, sas, sasa, sasas, Sasi, sask, saso, sasr, sassi, Sasso, Sassou, sassss, sast, saus, saxs, saz, sazo, sdas, Sessa, Sesso, sexss, Sfas, sfs, sgss, siess, smas, spass, spazz, spss, ss, ssad, ssasm, sss, ssso, ssss, suss, susse, sxs, zas, zuss. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sass" (pronounced sa"s) |
| 2 | -a" s | alas, amass, ass, bass, bras, brass, chasse, class, crass, gas, glass, grass, harass, impasse, lass, last, mass, Masse, morass, pass, Ras, repass, surpass, Tass. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-s-s-s" | |
-1 letter: ass. | |
-2 letters: as. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-s-s-s" | |
+1 letter: asses, sassy. | |
+2 letters: assais, assays, assess, assets, assist, basses, bassos, cassis, essays, fossas, gasses, lasses, lassos, lyssas, massas, masses, passes, passus, salsas, sashes, sasins, sassed, sasses, sisals, spasms, stases, stasis, strass, tasses. | |
+3 letters: abscess, abysses, amasses, asceses, ascesis, asepses, asepsis, ashless, askeses, askesis, aspises, assails, assents, asserts, assigns, assists, assizes, assoils, assorts, assumes, assures, bassets, bassist, biasses, brasses, cassias, chasses, chassis, classes, classis, dassies, dossals, frasses, gasless, gassers, gausses, glasses, glossas, gossans, grasses, hassels, hassles, hussars, jassids, kvasses, lassies, lassoes, massifs, messans, missals, missays, passels, passers, quasses, rassles, sadisms, sadists, sadness, samosas, samshus, sansars, sanseis, sapless, saroses, sarsars, sarsens, sashays, sassaby, sassier, sassies, sassily, sassing, seasons, seesaws, serosas, sesames, shiksas, siestas, slashes, smashes, snashes, stashes, subbass, surpass, swashes, tassels, tassets, tassies, trasses, tussahs, tussars, vassals, wiseass, wrasses. | |
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