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Sais vs Sass - What's the difference?

sais | sass |

As a pronoun sais

is in these;.

As a noun sass is

(us) sarcasm, backtalk, cheek.

As a verb sass is

(us) to talk, to talk back.

sais

English

Verb

(head)
  • (form of)

    • Noun

    (es)
  • (India) A groom, or servant with responsibility for the horses.
  • * 1888', Here all trace of him was lost, until a '''''sais'' or groom met me on the Simla Mall with this extraordinary note — Rudyard Kipling, ‘Miss Youghal's ''Sais''’, ''Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2007, p. 25)

    • Anagrams

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    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.”