Cass vs Sass - What's the difference?
cass | sass |
A medieval diminutive of the female given name Cassandra.
transferred from the surname; also a diminutive of Cassius.
(US) sarcasm, backtalk, cheek.
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(US) To talk, to talk back.
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As verbs the difference between cass and sass
is that cass is (obsolete|transitive) to render useless or void; to annul; to reject; to send away while sass is (us) to talk, to talk back.As a noun sass is
(us) sarcasm, backtalk, cheek.cass
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)Anagrams
* English diminutives of female given namessass
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.”