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- noun Chiefly Scots Variant of
lassie .
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Examples
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What sort of a lassy is the cobbler's daughter? or has the cobbler
Tales and Novels — Volume 01 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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The lassy is your typical pretty girl next door and the dude is quite unmistakably a quaint rocker.
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She is a sassy lassy, with a quick wit and sometimes sharp tongue to match.
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Biden is a lassy, gracious guy, and will just make it look good.
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Near me, &c. If I get thee with bairn, lassy, my deary?
Laddy Lye Near Me 1999
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Suzanna's a funicle man cho: Sing lassy go rings below
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Near me, &c. What will thy parents say, lassy, my dearie?
Laddy Lye Near Me 1999
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Near me, &c. I'll never marry thee, lassy, my dearie.
Laddy Lye Near Me 1999
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"O lassy me! love, no doubt, and the moon, and eyes, and nightingales, and ----"
Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906
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See too the quotation, 'when I reached Mrs. Damask's house she was gone to bed, and nobody to let me in, dripping wet as I was, but an _ashypet_ lassy, that helps her for a servant.'
Popular Tales from the Norse George Webbe Dasent 1856
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