tassie
noun
tass.
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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
Example Sentences
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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
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, 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
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
When Tassie Weaver went into labour at full term, she thought she was hours away from holding her first child.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2025
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
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
Among other relics of Smith that are still extant are four medallions by Tassie, which very probably hung in his library.
From Life of Adam Smith by John Rae
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