lassie - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • come: It's Lassie Come Home grief: nothing whatsoever to do with the guy who sang the songs with the catchy tunes.
  • love: Morning is broken, I love a lassie, Stop your tickling Jock, Greensleeves.
  • say: Jack had already spoken to the landlord, said the lassie was better working the easier dayshift to avoid any mishaps.

Adjective modifier

  • wee: Big tartan kisses from a wee scots lassie ( btw " jocks " wtf?
  • young: He called down: 'Is there a mackintosh down there big enough to keep two young lassies warm?
  • Scottish: These three Scottish lassies were not cousins at all.
  • yungest: Wi the verra first chap, the yungest lassie, the dure bar in hir haund, flang the dure wyde ti the waw.
  • bonny: A right bonny lassie sang but the man, a baritone he cried his sel, would have been better singing dumb Archie thought.
  • poor: Poor lassie - we were all soaking wet, bedraggled.

Modifies a noun

  • o: Margaret was a lassie o pairts who was raised in a plowman's cottage in Lanarkshire.

Noun used with modifier

  • bonnie: She's glad to see our bonnie lassies fresh from Old England.
  • ma: An Ah gie ye the wattir, ma lassie, wul ye mairrie me?
  • bit: Lang syne, when I was a bit lassie, no twenty yet - " She paused and sighed.

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