lass, lassie, young girl, jeune fille
(noun) a girl or young woman who is unmarried
Source: WordNet® 3.1
lass (plural lasses)
(archaic in some dialects, informal) A young woman or girl.
Synonym: Thesaurus:girl
Coordinate term: lad
(Geordie, Mackem) A sweetheart.
Still prevalent in Scottish English, Irish English, and Northern English dialects such as Geordie (Tyneside), Mackem (Wearside), County Durham, Northumberland, Teesside and Yorkshire. Sometimes used poetically in other dialects of English.
• SASL, sals
Source: Wiktionary
Lass, n. Etym: [OE. lasse; prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. llodes girl, fem. of llawd lad. (Lad a youth.]
Definition: A youth woman; a girl; a sweetheart.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 February 2025
(adjective) possessed by inordinate excitement; “the crowd went crazy”; “was crazy to try his new bicycle”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.