tassie
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- noun
- Australian
- I'm using both Tassies to print the parts because we've got quite a lot of printing to do for this, and that's still going to take several days of printing.
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# If England needs a hand, well here it is # # If England needs a hand, well here it is # # If England needs a hand, well here it is # # If England needs a hand, well here it is # # We'll show the enemy we're as hard as nails # # The boys from Victoria and New South Wales # # South Australia and the West, my lad # # Queensland and Tassie know their bizz # # So buy the beer, old fellow and we will always lend a hand # # If England needs a hand, well here it is # No, no, no.
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Across the ditch here, stopping the damming of the Franklin and Gordon Rivers in Tassie was pivotal in the '83 election which brought Bob Hawke to power.
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And so we're I don't want this Tasmania Tassie down here.
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Look for Lea Tassie on Smashwords.com.
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- Tassie?
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You've got to prowl... like a Tassie tiger.
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It's a safe way of being concerned and rad, even if you're a conservative type; and Tassie is way off in the distance, so what the hell.
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The authors thank the following student researchers, who carried out a portion of this project in partial fulfillment of their master's degrees: Geo Athappilly, Linda Chung, Patricia Tassie, and Michael Work.
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I visited Tassie last summer and loved the beautiful landscapes.
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He poured the whiskey into his tassie and took a sip.
Synonyms
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An Australian state on an island south of the mainland, known for wild animals and national parks
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A shallow wide bowl on a short stem that holds fruit or is for decoration
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word tassie is an informal nickname for Tasmania, the Australian island, used like 'Aussie'. It also means a small drinking cup, and a helpful way to remember this is to think of the French tasse or Italian tazza which mean 'cup', so a tassie is a little 'cup'.