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lassy

lassy is the alternative form of lassie.

Meaning of lassie

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

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Forms of lassy

plurallassies

Origin of lassy

From lass + -y.

Questions about lassy

What is lassy the alternative form of?
Lassy is the alternative form of lassie.

Words near lassy in the dictionary

  1. lassuing
  2. lassus
  3. Lasswade
  4. Lasswell
  5. Lasswells
  6. lassy
  7. last
  8. last 16
  9. last 16s
  10. last antecedent rule
  11. last big thing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lassy (page history and authors); lassie (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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