Sassy

Definition: Sassy

Sassy

Adjective

1. Improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sassy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references)

SASSY

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Sassy

Crosswords: Sassy

And maybe you should leave that sassy but Sassoon look to the late night action adventure shows (She Spies; writing credit: Ron Osborn; Josh Appelbaum)

School girl Sadie with the classy kinda sassy (Walk This Way; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Sassy Sue (1972)

Cold Sassy Tree (1989)

Rich & Sassy (1988)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Cold Sassy Tree (reference)

• Leaving Cold Sassy: The Unfinished Sequel to Cold Sassy (reference)

• Sarah Vaughan Sassy Jazz Songs: Piano Vocal Music Book (reference)

• Sassy Cats: Purr-fect Craft Projects (reference)

• Sassy Cinderella (Harlequin American Romance, No. 951) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Cold Sassy Tree (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Soft & Sassy (reference)

• Young Sassy [BOX SET] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Sassy Grooming Kit (reference)

• Sassy Toy Gift Set (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "sassy": sassy bark. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏وقح (abrasive, barefaced, blatant, bold, brazen, cool, flippant, hardy, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, off hand, overbold, pert, presuming, presumptuous, rascal, rude, saucy, scamp, shameless, smart). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нахален (arrogant, cheeky, contumelious, flip, forward, huffish, impudent, insolent, jumped-up, malapert, nervy, obtrusive, offensive, perky, presuming, saucy, snotty), дързък (arrogant, assuming, audacious, cheeky, contumelious, cool, daring, defiant, foolhardy, malapert, nervy, overbold, reckless, saucy, venturesome). (various references)

French

insolent, impertinent (saucy), effronté (saucily). (various references)

German

frech (barefaced, bold, brassy, brazen, cheekily, cheeky, cocky, fresh, impertinent, impudent, impudently, insolent, insultingly, naughtily, naughty, nervy, perkily, ribald, rude, saucily, saucy, unblushingly, wicked), unverschämt (abandoned, barefaced, blatant, bold, brash, brazen, brazen faced, brazenly, contumelious, exorbitant, impertinent, impertinently, impudent, impudently, insolent, insolently, insulting, nervy, obscene, offensive, offensively, outrageous, rude, saucy, tacky, unashamedly, unblushing, unconscionable, unconscionably, wicked). (various references)

Greek 

άγριοσ (black, feral, ferocious, fierce, harsh, lupin, lupine, savage, truculent, violent, wild), αυθάδησ (arrogant, audacious, brash, brazen, flippant, forward, impertinent, insolent, jackanapes, pert, presumer, presumptuous, saucy). (various references)

Hungarian

pimasz (brash, brassy, brazen, cheeky, cocky, forward, hubristic, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, saucy, saucy bit), pikánsan sikkes (saucy), feleselő (saucy), elegáns (cheesy, doggish, dressy, elegant, fashionable, flossy, graceful, light, natty, nifty, Nobby, posh, primp, saucy, smart, snappy, spicy, spiffing, spiffy, spruce, stylish, swell, swish, tacky, tricksy, upscale). (various references)

Italian

insolente (brash, brazen, cheekily, cheeky, defiant, forward, impertinent, insolent, pert, puppyish, rude, saucily). (various references)

Pig Latin

assysay.(various references)

Portuguese

petulante (flip, hoity-toity, huffish, hussy, malapert, perk, pert, petulant, waspish), audacioso (audacious, daredevil, daring, foolhardy, hot-blooded, temerarious). (various references)

Russian 

развязный (bounder, forward, jaunty, loud, pert, pushy), нахальный (bumptious, cheeky, cocky, impertinent, impudent, pert, presumptuous, pushy, smart-alecky, snotty), дерзкий (audacious, bold, brash, cheeky, cocky, contumelious, cool, daring, defiant, flippant, forward, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, malapert, perky, pert, petulant, presumptuous, reckless, saucy, tossy). (various references)

Spanish

procaz (cheekily, cheeky, insolent, lewd, obscene, saucily), fresco (brisk, cheeky, cool, crisp, familiar, forward, fresco, fresh, fresh air, green, impudent person, new, recent, saucebox, saucy, sweet, warm, wet), deslenguado (impertinent, insolent, saucy), descarado (barefaced, blatant, bold, bold-faced, bounder, brash, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, cheeky, forward, free, fresh, hussy, impertinent, impudent, nervy, overbold, perky, saucy). (various references)

Thai

โอหัง. (various references)

Turkish

sulu (aqueous, enhydrous, hydrated, hydrous, juicy, lush, moist, Pappy, ripe, runny, saucily, saucy, sloppy, slushy, smarmy, soft, soupy, succulent, washy, watery, weak, wet), sırnaşık (brash, brassy, importunate, intrusive, obtrusive, pushful, pushing, saucy, smarmy), utanmaz (bare faced, barefaced, bold, bold-faced, brazenfaced, gay, immodest, impudent, ribald, shameless, unabashed, unashamed, unblushing, unembarassed), şımarık (perky, pert, saucy, spoilt, wayward), arsız (bare faced, barefaced, bold, bold-faced, brassy, calm, cheeky, daft, flip, flippant, fresh, hard bitten, Hardy, impudent, malapert, perky, pert, Randy, shameless, unabashed, unblushing, vigorous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xấc xược (flippant, forward, forwardly, pert, pertly, snottiness). (various references)

Misspellings

"Sassy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: assisy, assy, sais, Sarsby, sasas, Sasi, Sasib, sasie, saso, Sassay, sassey, sassi, sassie, Sasso, sassss, Sastry, sasy, sausy, sazzy, Sessay, Sessey, Sesso, sgss, sisi, sisie, Sissay, sissi, sissie, smaczny, sossy, ssasm, sss, ssso, ssss, susy, Zsuzsi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: sass, says.

-2 letters: ass, ays, say.

-3 letters: as, ay, ya.

+1 letter: assays, essays, lyssas.

+2 letters: abysses, missays, sashays, sassaby, sassily.

+3 letters: alyssums, assayers, bypasses, essayers, essayist, isostasy, misassay, passkeys, skysails, spyglass, synapses, synapsis, syngases.

+4 letters: asynapses, asynapsis, bioassays, crossways, essayists, gaynesses, misassays, passersby, pussycats, sannyasis, soothsays, staysails, synapsids, syngasses.

+5 letters: awaynesses, dissatisfy, dryasdusts, dyscrasias, dyspepsias, dysphasias, dysphasics, dysplasias, ecdysiasts, essayistic, eyeglasses, graynesses, hypostases, hypostasis, mayoresses, misassayed, raygrasses, ryegrasses, sannyasins, satyriases, satyriasis, seamlessly, spyglasses, spymasters, statocysts, syllabuses, symposiast, synaereses, synaeresis, yeastiness.