- 1姑娘、少女（蘇格蘭／英格蘭北部口語）
A lass is a girl or a young woman. That is the whole meaning — though actually you will almost only hear it in Scotland and the north of England, or from people putting on that voice. A might say “Can I help you, lass?” the way someone else says “love” or “dear”: friendly, a little old-fashioned, and not meant to be rude. Younger city speakers use it less; older people and country speech keep it. In songs, stories, and films it is a handy way to sound Scottish. In American or textbook English it is rare except as a flavour word. The usual pair in that same speech is lad for a boy. It is a noun, not a name: write it with a small l unless you mean the famous dog.
組成From Middle English las, lasce, lasse (“female infant or child; young woman”), traditionally derived from Old Norse lǫskr (“unmarried”).
同家族的字
- lassiethe same word plus the diminutive ending -ie: a smaller or warmer form, still mainly Scottish
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
lassnoun/læs/
- 1
A girl; also (by extension), a young woman.
- Come and dance, ye lads and lasses!
- [T]heyr founders soules / Haue lost theyr beade rolles, / The mony for theyr masses / Spent amonge wanton lasses; […]
- 2
A girl; also (by extension), a young woman.
- Jenny Hill, a pale, overwrought, pretty Salvation lass of 18, comes in through the yard gate, leading Peter Shirley, a half hardened, half worn-out elderly man, weak with hunger.
- 3
A sweetheart.
- But firſt him ſeemed fit, that vvounded Knight / To viſite, after this nights perillous paſſe, / And to ſalute him, if he vvere in plight, / And eke [also] that Lady his faire louely laſſe.
- It vvas a Louer, and his laſſe, / VVith a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, / That o're the greene corne feild did paſſe, / In the ſpring time, the onely pretty rang [ring] time, / VVhen Birds do ſing, hey ding a ding, ding.
- 4
A female servant; a maid, a maidservant.
- […] I'll tell ye that after we are done wi' our supper, for it will may be no be sae weel to speak about it while that lang-lugged limmer o' a lass is gaun flisking in and out o' the room.
- [S]ure aneugh, the lass washed clottered blood aff the carpet the neist day.
- 5
A term of address for a woman, or a female animal.
- As fair art thou, my bonie laſs, / So deep in luve am I; / And I will luve thee ſtill, my Dear, / Till a' the ſeas gang dry.
- "Hi, Juno, lass—hi, old girl; down, Daph, down," said Wardle, caressing the dogs.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。