name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A grass carp; a white amur.

   "The one thing I didn’t want to do was spook ^([sic]) a grassie by hastily walking down the sidewalk."

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A surname. countable, uncountable
2. 2
   A community in West Lincoln, Ontario, Canada. countable, uncountable

Synonyms

All synonyms

grasser

Example

More examples

"The one thing I didn’t want to do was spook ^([sic]) a grassie by hastily walking down the sidewalk."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From grass + -ie.

Etymology 2

Variant of Grass.

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