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lassie

/ˈlæsi/

lassie noun: a young girl, a lass, especially one seen as a sweetheart.

Noun

lassie (plural lassies)

  1. (Geordie, Northern England, Northumbria, Scotland) A young girl, a lass, especially one seen as a sweetheart.
    • I had been on a message for my father, and was walking home along the road, when I saw a tall, fine lassie coming over the bogland on the right hand side of the road.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 27
    • It was the day of warlocks and apparitions, now happily driven out by the zeal of the General Assembly. Witches pursued their wanchancy calling, bairns were spirited away, young lassies selled their souls to the Evil One, and the Accuser of the Brethren, in the shape of a black tyke, was seen about...1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

Proper noun capitalized: Lassie

Lassie

  1. A name given to female dogs.

lassie meaning in Tamil

lassie in Tamil

சிறுமி குட்டிப்பெண்

Examples of lassie in a sentence

  • It isnae healthy a lassie reading all the time the way ye do.
  • “I kenna whatna man ye are,” he says, “but ye have the skill of lassies' hearts.
  • But there was a reason, and the reason, as in most like cases, was a lassie.

All 16 example sentences with lassie

Forms of lassie

plurallassies

Plural of lassie: lassies

Origin of lassie

From lass + -ie.

From lassie.

Words formed from lassie

Words that rhyme with lassie

6 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about lassie

What does lassie mean?
Lassie means a young girl, a lass, especially one seen as a sweetheart.
What is lassie in Tamil?
Lassie in Tamil is சிறுமி குட்டிப்பெண். See Lassie meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lassie?
Lassie can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce lassie?
Lassie is pronounced /ˈlæsi/.
What is the plural of lassie?
The plural of lassie is lassies.

Words near lassie in the dictionary

  1. Lasseter
  2. Lasseters
  3. Lassetter
  4. Lassetters
  5. lassi
  6. lassie
  7. lassiehood
  8. lassies
  9. Lassik
  10. lassis
  11. Lassiter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lassie (page history and authors); Lassie (page history and authors); lassie (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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