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Sassed vs Sarsed - What's the difference?

sassed | sarsed |

As verbs the difference between sassed and sarsed

is that sassed is past tense of sass while sarsed is past tense of sarse.

sassed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (sass)

  • 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.”

    sarsed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sarse)

  • sarse

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) A sieve, especially a very fine one.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1833 , author=(John Neal) , title=The Down-Easters, Volume 1 , passage=I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse … .}}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1870 , author=(Thomas Bailey Aldrich) , title=The Story of a Bad Boy , passage="I don't want any of your sarse ," said the boy, scowling.}}

    Verb

    (sars)
  • To sift through a sieve or sarse.