Sasses vs Masses - What's the difference?
sasses | masses |
(sass)
(US) sarcasm, backtalk, cheek.
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(US) To talk, to talk back.
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(plural only, generically) People, especially a large number of people
* '>citation
(plural only) The total population.
* 1975 , (Monty Python), '(Monty Python and the Holy Grail)'':
(plural only) The lower classes or all but the elite.
(mass)
As a verb sasses
is .As a noun masses is
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English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
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English
Noun
(-)- “Say — if you give me much more of your sass I’ll take and bounce a rock off’n your head.”
- “Looky here — mind how you talk to me; I’m a-standing about all I can stand now — so don’t gimme no sass .”
Derived terms
* sassyVerb
(es)- “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.”
- “But, good land! what did he want to sass back for? You see, it couldn’t do him no good, and it was just nuts for them.”
masses
English
Noun
(head)- Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.
- The masses will be voting this Tuesday.
- Dennis: Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses , not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.