dass

See also: daß and dass.

English

Etymology

Compare dare, darest, dast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dæs/

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• Rhymes: -æs

Verb

dass (third-person singular simple present dasses, present participle dassing, simple past and past participle dassed)

1. (archaic) To dare.
   • 1890, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Timothy's Quest, page 58:

     We all looked at one 'nother, 'n' I thought for a second somebody 'd laugh, but nobody dassed, 'n' there warn'ta sound in the room 's Aunt Beccy sot down agin' without movin' a muscle in her face.

   • 1904, Henry A. Shute, Sequil Or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First, page 8:

     Gim scrached a line in the dirt and told Will not to dass to step over it and then Will put a chip on his sholeder and told Gim not to dass to nock it off

   • 1907, Lawrence Mott, To the credit of the sea, page 72:

     "Ay, an' lost me th' ship, 'cause I'd never dassed take her wi' only twenty barrel o' bait, 'f I'd knowed th' new law. I hain't got much money, Mr. Burberry, an' there's the missils an' kiddies to house an' dress an' feed.

   • 1907, Mabel Osgood Wright, Gray lady and the birds: stories of the bird year for home and school, page 41:

     You weren't smart to refuse; you could have had a peep inside the General's house, maybe, and I don't believe she'd dassed said a word about birds on hats, with one of the company wearing 'em!

   • 1933, Sammy Lerner, theme from, Popeye the Sailor::

     "If anyone dasses to risk my fist, it's Boff! and it's Wham! Understand?"

See also

• dassn't
• dast

Anagrams

• DSAs, SDAs, ASDs, SADs, assd., SDAS, ASDS, sads, SSAD, SADS