different between sass vs jass

English

Etymology

Variant of sauce

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sæs/
• Rhymes: -æs

Noun

sass (uncountable)

1. (US) Backtalk, cheek, sarcasm.
2. (archaic) Vegetables used in making sauces.

Derived terms

• sassy

Translations

Verb

sass (third-person singular simple present sasses, present participle sassing, simple past and past participle sassed)

1. (intransitive, US, informal) To talk, to talk back.
   • 1894, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

     “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.”

2. (transitive, US, informal) To speak insolently to.

Translations

German

Verb

sass

1. Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of saß.

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Alemannic German Jass.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /jas/

Noun

jass (uncountable)

1. (card games) A trick-taking card game popular in Switzerland and neighboring areas of Germany and Austria.
   • 1986, Kenneth Hsu, The Great Dying:

     A Swiss jass master and I teamed up against my wife and an American, who were both rank beginners.

   • 2010, Diccon Bewes, Swiss Watching, p. 244:

     Jass is similar to bridge, though with completely different cards, and is a national obsession, for young and old alike.

   • 2014, Donal McLaughlin, translating Arno Camenisch, Behind the Station:

     When Nonna plays cards, she moves her teeth from side to side. It makes a bit of a racket. It distracts the other jass players – that's why Nonna's so good at jass.

Further reading

• jass on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• An explanation of the card game's rules

Etymology 2

Obsolete and variant forms.

Noun

jass (uncountable)

1. Obsolete spelling of jazz
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 417:

     “Yet I've noticed the same thing when your band plays—the most amazing social coherence, as if you all shared the same brain.”

     “Sure,” agreed “Dope,” “but you can't call that organization.”

     “What do you call it?”

     “Jass.”

Icelandic

Noun

jass m (genitive singular jass, no plural)

1. Alternative form of djass

Declension