单词 | tassie |
释义 | tassien.1 Scottish. A small cup or ‘tass’. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > small tass1480 cymphe1490 cannikin1509 trinket1541 tun1555 pocill1572 noggin1588 chark1591 quick shot1624 nipperkin1691 pannikin1727 tassie1790 dobbin1792 tinnie1825 tot1828 tin1900 thimble cup1933 1790 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum III. 240 Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, And fill it in a silver tassie. 1810 A. Cunningham et al. Remains Nithsdale & Galloway Song 94 But here's my Jean's health i' the siller-lipped-tassie! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Tassien.2 Used attributively and absol. of replicas of ancient engraved gems or original portrait reliefs made in glass paste by James or William Tassie. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > making jewellery or setting with jewels > [adjective] > relating to cutting or engraving gems > specific engraver Tassie1819 1819 J. Keats Let. 13 Mar. (1958) II. 45 On looking at your seal I cannot tell whether or not it is done with a Tassi—it seems to me to be paste. 1894 J. M. Gray James & William Tassie viii. 65 The Shadford Walker Sale included..over a hundred large Tassie medallions of contemporary personages. 1942 E. Blunden Romantic Poetry & Fine Arts 10 His [sc. Keats's] own particular Tassie was ‘a lyre with the strings broken’. 1972 Times 1 Aug. 11/5 (advt.) A collection of paintings..Tassi medallions. 1979 Mills & Mansfield Genuine Article vii. 109 Many people fail, when encountering what might be a ‘Tassie’, to..see if the alleged diamond is backed by metal. 1981 ‘J. Gash’ Vatican Rip iii. 36 That glimpse of Mrs Culpepper's ‘tassie’, as we call such incised semiprecious carvings. 1981 ‘J. Gash’ Vatican Rip v. 46 The silly bitch laughingly refused to sell me her tassie ring. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Tassien.3 Australian slang. 1. Tasmania. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Australasia > [noun] > Australia > Tasmania Tassie1894 Apple Island1906 Apple Isle1906 the Speck1930 1894 Argus (Melbourne) 26 Jan. 3 Today Tassy—as most Victorian cricketers and footballers familiarly term our neighbour over the straits—will send a team into the field. 1915 H. Lawson Coll. Verse (1969) III. 154 Fighting hard for little Tassy, where the apple orchards grow. 1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xix. 188 The Poet says that's the area of Tasmania. I'll take his word for it, as I haven't time to go and measure Tassie. 1956 S. Hope Diggers' Paradise 77 The Hobart–Launceston express has the advantage of allowing the customer to see Tassie's beautiful countryside. 1977 Herald (Melbourne) 17 Jan. 14/2 (advt.) Come to ‘Tassie’ the Casino State. 2. A Tasmanian. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun] > parts of bushboya1834 Melbournite1838 Melburnian1838 bushman1846 Vandemonian1852 scrubber1859 Queenslander1860 Victorian1862 Sydneysider1865 Centralian1875 Waler1880 Territorian1882 mutton-bird1892 bushy1896 sand-groper1896 tothersider1896 crow-eater1899 Bananalander1900 outbacker1900 Tassie1905 groper1924 Tasmanian1934 mutton-bird eater1941 Top-Ender1941 Kanakalander1945 1905 in A. B. Paterson Old Bush Songs 51 Once more the Maorilander and the Tassey will be seen Cooking johnny cakes and jimmies on the plains of Riverine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.11790n.21819n.31894 |
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