Sass vs Sads - What's the difference?
sass | sads |
(US) sarcasm, backtalk, cheek.
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(US) To talk, to talk back.
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(only with definite article) Sadness or melancholy
* {{quote-book, year=1996, author=David C. Treadway, title=Dead Reckoning: A Therapist Confronts His Own Grief, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=jQVHAAAAMAAJ, page=94
, passage=Lauris also tells the story of her putting some of her M&Ms into a bottle and calling them "Happiness Pills," which she sweetly offered when Martha had an episode of the Sads ."}}
* {{quote-book, year=2009, author=Leanne Rowe et al., title=I Just Want You To Be Happy, page=9, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=dyrQlcMQcSIC&pg=PA9
, passage=When parents start to feel sad vibes coming through most of the time and think, 'I don't know you any more', there's likely to be more going on than an ordinary bout of the sads .}}
As nouns the difference between sass and sads
is that sass is (us) sarcasm, backtalk, cheek while sads is .As a verb sass
is (us) to talk, to talk back.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.”