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(intransitive, US, informal) To talk, to talk back. / (transitive, US, informal) To speak insolently to.

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sass

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Source Word

sass

IPA(Pronunciation)

/sæs/

Verb

US informal intransitive transitive

(intransitive, US, informal) To talk, to talk back. / (transitive, US, informal) To speak insolently to.

Japanese Meaning

口答えする / 生意気な口調で話す

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When the principal reprimanded the student, he continued to sass and ended up with a detention.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

校長に叱られても彼は口答えを続け、居残りをさせられた。

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(intransitive, US, informal) To talk, to talk back.

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.

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