| 单词 |
lassie |
| 释义 |
lassie Chiefly Sc.|ˈlæsɪ|
Also 9 lassy.
[f. lass + dimin. suffix -ie -y).]
a. A lass, girl.
1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. i. song vi, I yield, dear lassie, ye hae won. 1792Burns ‘What can a young lassie’ i, What can a young lassie do wi' an auld man? 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. ix. 74 What sort of a lassy is the cobbler's daughter? 1889Barrie Window in Thrums 169 Na, it's other lassies' brothers they like as a rule.
b. = lass 1 d.
1906‘O. Henry’ Four Million 84 A Salvation lassie shook her contribution receptacle. 1970Guardian 12 May 10/5 Such items as whether Army lassies should wear lipstick in uniform.
Hence ˈlassiehood, girlhood. ˈlassieish a., young-womanish.
1857A. Wallace Gloaming of Life ii. 28 Where Robin..has to make the important transition from the equivocal garb of lassie-hood into his first ‘corduroys’. 1882J. Brown Horæ Subs., J. Leech, etc. 307 There is a somewhat vulgar and lassieish objection to Landseer's subjects, that they are painful. |
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