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sass

sæs
WordNet
  1. (v) sass
    answer back in an impudent or insolent manner; "don't sass me!","The teacher punished the students who were sassing all morning"
  2. (n) sass
    an impudent or insolent rejoinder "don't give me any of your sass"
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) sass
    Same as sauce.
  2. (n) sass
    Vegetables, particularly those used in making sauces: as, garden sass.
  3. (n) sass
    Insolence; impudence.
  4. sass
    To talk or reply saucily; be insolent in replying.
  5. sass
    To sauce; be saucy to.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Sass
    sas (coll.) impudence: vegetables used in making sauces
  2. (v.i) Sass
    to be insolent in replies
Usage in the news

Sass arrived at the finish line of the more than 1,000-mile race on Wednesday at 11:25 a.m. newsminer.com

And Byron Sass of Byron, N.Y. observertoday.com

Martin Sass 's office in Midtown is filled with figures of bulls and bears. nytimes.com

Schuller unseats Sass for treasurer. jsonline.com

A decade of real spunk and sass . bainbridgereview.com

She Loves Me' full of retro sass . evesun.com

SASs Goodnight Comes Out Swinging. eweek.com

Sass and Dash From Ralph Lauren and Miguel Adrover. nytimes.com

Sorry, folks, I had a busy week last week and couldn't get to the Importometer, but we're back and ready to sass. capenews.net

A decade of real spunk and sass. bainbridgereview.com

Dennis Ray "Shorty" Steffens , the son of Raymond and Pearl Sass Steffen , was born June 11, 1944 in Hartley. spencerdailyreporter.com

Sass & the City: Time to get off the ban wagon. goerie.com

Above left, Fred Sass/The New York Times. nytimes.com

SASS & THE CITY: When samples are ample . goerie.com

SASS & THE CITY: Kids, you better watch out. goerie.com

Usage in scientific papers

Sasse reviewed the different interpretations of the Mashhoon effect, and discussed a description of fermions in a storage ring in a Serret-Frenet tetrad frame, instead of the usual Hehl-Ni frame. M.J.
Summary Talk on Cosmology and Gravitation: XXII Brazilian National Meeting on Particles and Fields

Sasse delivered a contribution in collaboration with R.F.
Summary Talk on Cosmology and Gravitation: XXII Brazilian National Meeting on Particles and Fields

Ebeling et al. (1998; 2000) identified the ma jority of their (e)BCS clusters from the data base produced by running the Standard Software Analysis System (SASS) on the RASS data (Voges 1992).
The Cluster Mass Function from Weak Gravitational Lensing

The SASS data have a total exposure time of 360s with the ROSAT Position Sensitive Proportional Counter (PSPC), this exposure time being constant across the sky.
The Cluster Mass Function from Weak Gravitational Lensing

Photon event table (PET) files were extracted in a 2◦ × 2◦ region centered on each of the SASS-based cluster candidates.
The Cluster Mass Function from Weak Gravitational Lensing

Usage in literature

Marie Saxe, better known under her Italianized name of Marie Sasse. "Style in Singing" by W. E. Haslam

It was that of Isaac Sass. "The Frontier Fort" by W. H. G. Kingston

He done sassed me too much, Miss Sally. "The Pleasant Street Partnership" by Mary F. Leonard

We can stand a little more of the same sort of sassing. "Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son" by George Horace Lorimer

Cheek is a fine thing in its way, and on this occasion I developed enough brass to make a pan, and enough "sass" to fill it; but all in vain. "Memoirs" by Charles Godfrey Leland

One day gran'pappy sassed Mis' Polly White an' she told him dat if he didn' 'have hese'f dat she would put him in her pocket. "Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States" by Various

They all shut up their sass when they spy yours truly! "The Rich Little Poor Boy" by Eleanor Gates

Annie sasses the entire factory. "Working With the Working Woman" by Cornelia Stratton Parker

The Sophomores may sneer at faculties and kings, but they wouldn't think of sassing you. "At Good Old Siwash" by George Fitch

Why, I even sassed Dad! "Tabitha at Ivy Hall" by Ruth Alberta Brown

Usage in poetry
Wunst I sassed my Pa, an' he
Won't stand that, an' punished me,--
Nen when he was gone that day,
I slipped out an' runned away.
De jay-bird squeal to de mockin'-bird: "Stop!
Don' gimme none o' yo' sass;
Better sing one song for de Baptis' crop,
Dey's mightily in de grass, grass,
Dey's mightily in de grass."
I guess thet Adam found it thus,
Afore he hed to grapple
With thet conundrum Satan rais'd
About the blam'd old apple;
He found Time sort ov smart tew pass
Afore Eve took tew apple sass.