Thursday, July 29, 2010

SASS

sass:

- impudent speech; impudent talk

- to talk impudently to; to talk disrespectfully to (especially to someone in authority or older)

Example: "I raised you so you wouldn't talk back to me or sass me." [Reference: Lawanda Randall; Telling Tales: The Tree of Love; The World & I (Washington, DC); Feb 1995]