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: lass sense 1. Synonyms. filly. girl. lass. missy. nymph. sheila [ Australian & New Zealand] See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of lassie in a Sentence. when she was just a wee lassie a pretty young lassie of 16 years.
lassie. (læsi ) Word forms: plural lassies. countable noun. A lassie is a young woman or girl. [mainly Scottish, informal] Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word Frequency.
Lassie definition: a young girl; lass. . See examples of LASSIE used in a sentence.
Definitions of lassie. noun. a girl or young woman who is unmarried. synonyms: jeune fille, lass, young girl. see more.
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Etymology
diminutive of lass.
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /ˈlæsi/ 2. Rhymes: -æsi
Noun
lassie (plural lassies) 1. (chiefly Scotland, Northern England, Geordie, Northumbria) A young girl, a lass, especially one seen as a sweetheart. 1.1. 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 27: 1.1.1. I had been on a message for my father, and was walking home along the road, when I saw a tall, fine lassiecoming over the bogland on the right hand side of the road. 1.2. 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide: 1.2.1. It was the day of warloc...
Etymology
After English Lassie.
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /ˈlɑsːie/, [ˈlɑ̝s̠ːie̞] 2. IPA(key): /ˈlɑsːiː/, [ˈlɑ̝s̠ːiː] 3. Rhymes: -ɑsːie 4. Syllabification(key): las‧si‧e
Noun
lassie (colloquial) 1. rough collie (breed of dog)
Etymology
Middle English, probably of North Germanic origin and related to Old Norse laskwa (“unmarried”)(feminine adjective), but of unknown ultimate origin.
Noun
lassie (plural lassies) 1. A young girl, a lass.
Noun. 1. lassie - a girl or young woman who is unmarried. jeune fille, lass, young girl. bobby-socker, bobbysoxer - an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s) fille, girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman - a young woman; "a young lady of 18". Lolita - a sexually precocious young girl.
Lassie. /ˈlæsi/. /ˈlæsi/. a dog that first appeared as a character in the film Lassie Come Home (1943), and went on to appear in several other films, a radio and television series, and a television cartoon, all mainly for children. Lassie is an intelligent dog that often rescues people from danger.
