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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an impudent or insolent rejoinder; "don't give me any of your sass" [syn: sass, sassing, backtalk, back talk, lip, mouth] v
1: answer back in an impudent or insolent manner; "don't sass me!"; "The teacher punished the students who were sassing all morning";

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: alteration of ¹sauce Date: 1835 impudent speech II. transitive verb Date: 1856 to talk impudently or disrespectfully to

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. US colloq. --n. impudence, cheek. --v.tr. be impudent to, cheek. Etymology: var. of SAUCE