different between sass vs sams

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

Noun

sams

1. plural of sam

Anagrams

• ASMS, ASMs, MSAs, Mass, Mass., SMAs, SMSA, mass

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *šamas, from a stem *šam-, from Proto-Indo-European *kam- (“stick, wood”). The semantic change (“wood” > “fish”) is due to resemblance between wels catfish, especially when asleep in water, and pieces of wood. Cognates include Lithuanian šãmas, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian ??? (som), Czech sumec (Old Czech som), Polish sum, Ancient Greek ????? (kámax, “pile, stake”) (compare Greek ?????? (kamáki, “spear, harpoon”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

sams m (1st declension)

1. wels catfish, sheatfish (a scaleless freshwater catfish, Silurus glanis)

Declension

References

Old Norse

Adjective

sams

1. strong masculine/neuter genitive singular of samr

Determiner

sams

1. strong masculine/neuter genitive singular of samr