Sashed vs Sassed - What's the difference?
sashed | sassed |
Fitted with a sash (window opener).
* 1868 , Thomas Richmond, The local records of Stockton and the neighbourhood
Having a sash (cloth decoration).
* 2000 , Laurence Senelick, The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre
(sass)
(US) sarcasm, backtalk, cheek.
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(US) To talk, to talk back.
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As an adjective sashed
is fitted with a sash (window opener).As a verb sassed is
past tense of sass.sashed
English
Adjective
(-)- Seeing sashed windows in town, he got them into his own house.
- ...and even middle-class matrons serving in the Sanitary Commission adopted an 'army costume' of loose trousers covered by a sashed kilt and kirtle.
Anagrams
* *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.”