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
Example Sentences
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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
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; 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
Heidi gave birth to their first daughter Lyla in 2019, two years before Tassie gave birth to Baxter.
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
John Bacon, afterwards known as a sculptor, was one of his artists, as also James Tassie of Glasgow.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
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