sassy
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sassy englanniksi
Bold and spirited, often towards someone in authority; cheeky; impudent; saucy. (defdate)
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(quote-book)|year=1867|volume=II|page=129|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=YtZTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA129|oclc=|passage=Oh, did n't I handle my gun, boys, – / My gun, boys, with shout upon shout? / And did n't the balls rain among us? / And did n't the blood run about? / A shipmate was dashed dead beside me; / The splinters flew – death-yells uprolled; / Oh, sassy that fight of old Erie! / More sassy, though, Perry the Bold!
(quote-book)—Death of Major Hunter.|title=The Rebel General’s Loyal Bride: A True Picture of Scenes in the Late Civil War|location=Springfield, Mass.|publisher=W. J. Holland and Company|year=1873|page=116|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=DCYtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA116|oclc=1808026|passage=Brought her down with a crack of the bull-dogs, jest as she was makin' off: she's the sassiest of the whole lot, as white wenches always be.
(quote-book) Many other jokes featured sassy servants besting their masters by playing dumb and taking instructions overly literally—another trope common in English servant jokes.
(quote-book)|year=2014|page=125|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=5yiWAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA125|isbn=978-1-4525-8846-9|passage=But for those of you that don't know, what men really like, is for you to talk to them with a feisty little attitude. You spark their fire when you do that. The feistier and sassier you act, the better.
Smart, fashionable; stylish; chic. (defdate)
(U), vigorous. (defdate)