sassing

Questions about sassing

What does sassing mean?

sassing means "an impudent or insolent rejoinder".

How many syllables are in sassing?

sassing has 2 syllables and divides as sas-sing under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for sassing?

Close synonyms include sass, backtalk, back talk, lip, mouth. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sassing a common word?

sassing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.