Lasses - English meaning

noun

A warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate animal distinguished by the possession of feathers, wings, a beak, and typically by being able to fly.

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I am currently using turkey feathers to fletch with, after spending half a day on a commercial turk…

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A creature with feathers and wings, usually able to fly

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Caged/wild birds, wading birds, most birds lay eggs in the spring., penguins and ostriches are flig…

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A particular type of person

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He's a tough old bird.

noun

A young bird, especially one newly hatched.

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The cattle egrets hatched and reared two chicks

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(in south asia) a folding bamboo screen for a doorway.

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A baby bird, especially a young chicken

noun

A girl or young woman.

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It is ironic that what o'casey was satirising in some of his later plays, the dancing colleens at t…

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A girl or young woman

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A girl from ireland

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A young unmarried woman.

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The young damsel has been captured by baddie pirate barbossa because she possesses a rare coin.

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A young woman who is not married

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The heroine in this movie isn’t like some damsel in distress (= woman needing a man’s help) waiting…

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A young female horse, especially one less than four years old.

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Four fillies and five colts all breezed one furlong in 10.20 seconds.

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A young, female horse

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A young female horse

noun

A female child.

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A six-year-old girl

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A female child or, more generally, a female of any age

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Two little girls showed us around the kindergarten., the girls’ basketball team is undefeated., we …

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A female child or young woman, especially one still at school

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Two girls showed us round the classrooms.

adjective

Characteristic of or appropriate to a girl or young woman.

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Girly pink paper

noun

A girl or young woman (often used as a condescending term of address).

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What's your name, girlie?

adjective

(of a person) enjoying things typically connected with women or girls, for example, make-up or the colour pink

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Is your man more girly than you?, girly girl my sister has always been a very girlie girl, not like…

noun

A girl or young woman.

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I'm going to see a wee lassie tonight

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A girl or young woman

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A female domestic servant.

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Mary eventually managed to find a job as a maid

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A woman who is employed to clean hotel rooms and make them neat, or a woman who is a servant in a person’s home

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We left a note in our room for the maid to give us extra towels.

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A woman who works as a servant in a hotel or in someone's home

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In the beach resort, the apartments and villas have daily maid service., in california many illegal…

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An unmarried girl or young woman.

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Two knights fought to win the hand of a fair maiden

adjective

(of an older woman) unmarried.

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A maiden aunt

noun

A girl or young woman

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In the story, the prince woos the fair maiden., a maiden voyage/flight

verb

Fail to hit, reach, or come into contact with (something aimed at).

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A laser-guided bomb had missed its target

noun

A failure to hit, catch, or reach something.

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The penalty miss cost us the game

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A title prefixed to the name of an unmarried woman or girl, or to that of a married woman retaining her maiden name for professional purposes.

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Miss hazel armstrong

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A girl or woman.

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A female may be my sheila, my bird, my charley, my good sort, my hot-drop, my judy or my wife, but …

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A girl or a woman

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A girl or young woman.

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In the new film about columbus, she plays the token buxom wench

verb

(of a man) habitually associate with prostitutes.

noun

A young woman