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tassie

tassie

1 9.9
A small shallow cup for drinking, or the Australian island Tasmania
  • noun
  • Australian
: Tasmania
  • 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.

Examples

  • # 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.

  • 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.

  • Look for Lea Tassie on Smashwords.com.

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  • - Tassie?

  • You've got to prowl... like a Tassie tiger.

  • 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.

  • He poured the whiskey into his tassie and took a sip.

Synonyms

Tasmania
vstassie
12 3.4

An Australian state on an island south of the mainland, known for wild animals and national parks

is the informal or slang version of that place name
tazza
vstassie
1 9.9

A shallow wide bowl on a short stem that holds fruit or is for decoration

is a small shallow cup used as a casual drinking vessel

Surface Forms

tassie singular
tassies plural

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'.