grassy ass

English

Etymology

From Spanish gracias (“thank you”).

Interjection

(humorous) Eye dialect spelling of gracias.
- 1977, Robert Coover, The public burning‎, page 20:
  "Grassy-ass, amigos! Mooch-ass grassy-ass!" Ha ha, de nada, jefe
- 2007, Louis Gerard Mendoza, Toni Marie Nelson Herrera, Telling tongues: a Latin@ anthology on language experience, link
  Grassy ass Maggie.
- 2011, Jane H. Hill, The Everyday Language of White Racism‎, page 140:
  The joke “Grassy-Ass” for “Gracias” (diversely realized in images on humorous greeting cards

Related terms

grassy arse
mooch ass grassy ass

See also

References

The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

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