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Lassie

//ˈlæsi// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A name given to female dogs.
Noun
  1. 1
    A young girl, a lass, especially one seen as a sweetheart. Geordie, Northern-England, Northumbria, Scotland

    "I had been on a message for my father, and was walking home along the road, when I saw a tall, fine lassie coming over the bogland on the right hand side of the road."

  2. 2
    a girl or young woman who is unmarried wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From lass + -ie.

Etymology 2

From lassie.

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