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Sass vs Yass - What's the difference?

sass | yass |

As a noun sass

is sarcasm, backtalk, cheek.

As a verb sass

is to talk, to talk back.

As a particle yass is

eye dialect of lang=en.

As a proper noun Yass is

a river in New South Wales, Australia.

sass

English

Noun

(-)
  • (US) sarcasm, backtalk, cheek.
  • *
    • “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

    * sassy

    Verb

    (es)
  • (US) To talk, to talk back.
  • *
    • “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.”

    yass

    English

    Particle

    (head)
  • (US, dialectal)
  • * 1962 (2006), Joseph Commings, "The X Street Murders", The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries
    • Yass . I never got above the rank of shavetail. We were the dogfaces who gave ’em hell at Chateau Thierry.