Sassed vs Passed - What's the difference?
sassed | passed |
(sass)
(US) sarcasm, backtalk, cheek.
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(US) To talk, to talk back.
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(pass)
That has passed beyond a certain point (chiefly in set collocations).
That has passed a given qualification or examination; qualified.
As verbs the difference between sassed and passed
is that sassed is past tense of sass while passed is past tense of pass.As an adjective passed is
that has passed beyond a certain point (chiefly in set collocations).sassed
English
Verb
(head)sass
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.”