单词 | sass |
释义 | sassn. Originally North American colloquial. 1. a. Vegetables; esp. garden vegetables grown as food. Frequently with modifying word, as garden, green, etc. Cf. sauce n. 2a. Now rare.long sass, short sass: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > relish > [noun] zest1704 sass1775 kinaki1820 relish1826 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared vegetables and dishes > [noun] > salad saladc1390 round salad1578 acetar1623 acetary1657 green salad1675 sass1775 potato salad1796 Russian salad1846 egg salad1873 sunomono1900 salade niçoise1907 Spanish salad1911 Waldorf salad1911 gado-gado1924 Spanish sauce1928 panzanella1937 side salad1940 Caesar salad1946 Cobb salad1947 wedge salad1949 chaat1954 fattoush1955 tabbouleh1955 pico de gallo1958 Caesar1978 caprese1978 1775 J. Stevens Jrnl. 5 May in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1912) XLVIII. 43 Steven Barker come down & brought us som sas. 1836 B. Tucker Partisan Leader II. xxxv. 124 The fellow talked to me about living at home on codfish, and potatoes, and cider, and pies, and all sorts of sass. 1860 Knickerbocker July 102 White turnip, yellow turnip, or any sort of sass, long sass, or short sass. 1968 Bennington (Vermont) Banner 2 Aug. 4/6 The biggest crop thus far has been salads..most of the spinach being used thus along with endive. Add to these six varieties of lettuce and you have the making of many bushels of green sass. 1981 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Amer. 3 May (Stars Mag.) 32/2 I think beans give you the most pound of ‘garden sass’ per hour of work of any vegetable. b. U.S. regional (chiefly northern). Stewed or preserved fruit, typically sweetened and often eaten as a dessert. Frequently with modifying word denoting the fruit in question. Cf. sauce n. 2b. Now rare (chiefly historical).Quot. 1830 uses the word in both this sense and sense 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > fruit pulp pap1594 sass1830 1830 Dr. Black Lect. Moral Infl. National Assoc. in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 291/2 A vile democracy that of sasses: the peach preserved by molasses or maple sugar, is reduced to an equality with the potato. 1834 S. Smith Sel. Lett. Major Jack Downing xlvi. 117 A load of apples and apple-sass, and a few sausages. 1969 Bennington (Vermont) Banner 17 May 4/2 To a New Englander another of the bounties of spring is the lowly rhubarb plant... There is rhubarb ‘sass’, in which the succulent stalks are stewed together with sugar to the proper runny consistency. 2008 F. Sullivan in K. Kysar Riding Shotgun 173 We had apple sass, rhubarb sass, cherry sass, pear sass, and other sasses too numerous to mention. 2. With reference to speech or behaviour. Cf. sauce n. 8. a. Impudent, insolent, or disrespectful speech, esp. directed at someone in authority; cheek; impertinence. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > speech sauce malapert1529 petulancea1652 jaw1748 snash1786 slack-jaw1797 slang1805 gob1807 lip1821 cheek1825 slack1825 sass1841 back-talk1858 back sass1883 mouth1891 slack lip1899 back-chat1901 chin1902 slop1952 1841 Miners' Jrnl. & Pottsville (Pa.) Gen. Advertiser 4 Dec. At the conclusion of an animated discussion in a Debating Society..one of the ‘affirmatives’ planted his fist between the eyes of one of the ‘negatives,’ exclaiming, ‘take that for your sass’. 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer i. 23 If you give me much more of your sass I'll take and bounce a rock off'n your head. 1967 P. Welles Babyhip iii. 46 Is this what we get? Sass? No gratitude. 1992 T. Morrison Jazz 38 She knew her mother, and had even been slapped in the face by her for some sass she could not remember. 2005 C. West Devil's Kin ix. 149 ‘None of your damn business’, Annie replied in a huff. ‘I've had enough of your sass for one night.’ b. In a neutral or positive sense: self-assured, bold, or spirited quality or behaviour; swagger; lively or provocative audacity. ΚΠ 1957 El Paso (Texas) Herald-Post 4 Nov. 14/2 We got diamonds, We got class, We got freezers, We got sass. 1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 11 Jan. (Late City Final ed.) 13/1 What it added up to was derivative and ineffectual, but it had gloss, sass and energy. 1992 New Musical Express 4 Apr. 18/1 Glamour puss Elliot and wild child Simon have taken to the stage to inject sass, panache and a dash of glam into the faceless arena that typifies the dance scene. 2007 USA Today (Nexis) 25 Oct. (Final ed.) 3 d Though her voice is mostly awash in synthesizers and vocoders, her sass and attitude are the driving force. 2008 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 20 July She tumbles with attitude and does her dance moves with sass and spunk. Compounds sass-box n. a sassy person; (originally) one who is impudent, impertinent, or cheeky; (later also) one who is self-assured, bold, or spirited.With the original sense cf. saucebox n. ΚΠ 1856 J. Loud Gabriel Vane iv. 49 What do you stay here for, you young sass-box? 1964 M. Miller & E. Rhodes Only You, Dick Daring! xxx. 196 Merle, don't sass your mother. Nobody likes a sass box. 2015 @sophiaebrockley 2 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 13 Dec. 2021) Claire is such a classy sass-box and I love her. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). sassv. Originally U.S. colloquial. 1. a. transitive. To address (a person, esp. someone in authority) in an insolent, disrespectful, or cheeky manner; to be rude or cheeky to. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > treat impudently [verb (transitive)] > speak impudently to sauce1822 to give (a person) sauce1823 sass1836 cheek1840 chin1871 lip1898 back-sass1917 smart-mouth1970 1836 Boston Morning Post 17 Nov. I'd just thank her to leave my house as I would suffer no woman to sass me, if I was black. 1896 N.Y. Dramatic News 18 July 2/3 When he was requested to desist he ‘sassed’ the officer. 1920 S. Lewis Main St. x. 118 There had to be one man in town independent enough to sass the banker! 1956 W. H. Whyte Organization Man (1957) vii. xxvi. 358 If little Johnny sasses Mrs. Erdlick just once more. 2015 A. L. Williams His Rebel Heart xiv. 276 Don't you sass me, young lady! I am your mother. b. intransitive. To speak in an insolent, disrespectful, or cheeky manner. Cf. intransitive use of to sass back at sense 2a. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > be or become impudent [verb (intransitive)] > use impudent language to have drunk of sauce's cup?1499 to have eaten sauce?1499 snash1802 to give cheek1825 sass1866 to talk back1869 back-chat1927 back-talk1934 1866 Weekly Panola (Mississippi) Star 5 May I ain't gwine tur encourage none of the feller's what's bin sassis at us when we could'ent sass back. 1880 J. C. Harris Uncle Remus: Songs & Sayings iv. 29 You been runnin' roun' here sassin' after me a mighty long time. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 24 July 10/3 No teacher chooses to teach students who are sleeping or throwing chalk or sassing. 2020 T. I. Lowe Sea Glass Castle i. 2 ‘Don't let my dad hear you sassing about his place.’ ‘I'm paying him rent for this condo, so I can sass about it all I want.’ 2. to sass back. a. transitive and intransitive. To reply to (a person, esp. someone in authority) in an insolent, disrespectful, or cheeky manner; to answer back. ΚΠ 1862 ‘E. Kirke’ Among Pines v. 117 He..called him a d— ab'lishener, jess 'cause Massa K— wudn't get mad and sass him back. 1866 Weekly Panola (Mississippi) Star 5 May I ain't gwine tur encourage none of the feller's what's bin sassis at us when we could'ent sass back. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxvii. 280 The king sassed back, as much as was safe for him. 1947 L. Lenski Judy's Journey x. 140 You only rile folks when you sass 'em back that-a-way. 1998 B. Kingsolver Poisonwood Bible (1999) ii. 120 I do believe that man was a sinner, the way he sassed back at Father. b. transitive. With direct speech or clause as object: to retort. ΚΠ 1892 Cincinnati Commerc. Gaz. 15 Feb. 4/5 Recovering, he sassed back: ‘I am pretty well, and how are you, Mr. Ingersoll?’ 1915 Farm, Field & Fireside 30 Jan. 10/3 ‘Lay eggs in this shack? Not a one’, she sassed back. 1924 K. Burke White Oxen 243 Hobbes had maintained that he could; Miss MacIntyre had sassed back that he couldn't. 1928 M. C. Sharpe Chicago May vi. 50 ‘I won't shut up’, I sassed back at the judge. 2012 F. J. Lennon Devil's Gate xxix. 299 ‘Or what?’ I sass back. ‘I end up dead at the bottom of the bridge like your housekeeper?’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.1775v.1836 |
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