tassie
noun
tass.
tassie
American
[tas-ee]
/ ˈtæs i /
noun
Chiefly Scot.
Tassie
British
/ ˈtæzɪ /
noun
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Tasmania
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a native or inhabitant of Tasmania
Etymology
Origin of tassie
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Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, An' fill it in a silver tassie; goblet That I may drink, before I go, A service to my bonnie lassie.
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson
Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, And fill it in a silver tassie, That I may drink, before I go, A service to my bonnie lassie.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
I. Go, fetch to me a pint o' wine, And fill it in a silver tassie, That I may drink before I go A service to my bonie lassie!
From The Hundred Best English Poems by Adam L. (Adam Luke) Gowans
Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, An' fill it in a silver tassie; That I may drink before I go A service to my bonnie lassie.
From Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys by Various
Another user cites a team of grandmothers in Tasmania, Australia, called the "Tassie Nannas" who stage "knit-ins" at child imprisonment protests in Tasmania.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2019
Created by Tassie Cameron, the 10-episode series is a serialized portrait of a complicated woman that also vividly evokes a working mother’s worst nightmare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2017
Turnage, composer of Greek and The Silver Tassie, stresses the work is basically sympathetic to its central character.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2011
Music is by Mark-Anthony Turnage - composer of the operas "Greek" and "The Sliver Tassie" - and the libretto by Richard Thomas, co-creator of high art-meets-trash culture musical "Jerry Springer: The Opera."
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2011
The Shakespeare Gallery finally fell by lottery to Mr. Tassie, the well-known medallist, who thrived to a good old age upon the profits of poor Boydell's too generous expenditure.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
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