lass

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A girl

   A girl; also (by extension), a young woman.

   • Come and dance, ye lads and lasses!
   • [T]heyr founders soules / Haue lost theyr beade rolles, / The mony for theyr masses / Spent amonge wanton lasses; […]
   • Ste[phano]. Is it ſo braue a Laſſe? / Cal[iban]. I [i.e., aye] Lord, ſhe vvill become thy bed, I vvarrant, / And bring thee forth braue brood.
2. 2

   A sweetheart.

   • But firſt him ſeemed fit, that vvounded Knight / To viſite, after this nights perillous paſſe, / And to ſalute him, if he vvere in plight, / And eke [also] that Lady his faire louely laſſe.
   • It vvas a Louer, and his laſſe, / VVith a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, / That o're the greene corne feild did paſſe, / In the ſpring time, the onely pretty rang [ring] time, / VVhen Birds do ſing, hey ding a ding, ding.
3. 3

   A female servant

   A female servant; a maid, a maidservant.

   • […] I'll tell ye that after we are done wi' our supper, for it will may be no be sae weel to speak about it while that lang-lugged limmer o' a lass is gaun flisking in and out o' the room.
   • [S]ure aneugh, the lass washed clottered blood aff the carpet the neist day.
   • She fleyed Johnnie awa' frae the door when he was for daffin' wi' the serving lasses.
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   1. 4

      A term of address for a woman, or a female animal.

      • As fair art thou, my bonie laſs, / So deep in luve am I; / And I will luve thee ſtill, my Dear, / Till a' the ſeas gang dry.
      • "Hi, Juno, lass—hi, old girl; down, Daph, down," said Wardle, caressing the dogs.

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