lassies

Bonny young women

Lassies is the plural of lass, a girl or young woman.

The word is Scottish and Northern English in origin, carrying a folksy or affectionate tone: The lassies were out dancing.

Outside dialect use, it often sounds quaint or deliberately old-fashioned.

girls

maidens

Unmarried young women

gals · sweethearts · brides · sisters · lasses · colleens · fillies · wenches

Scottish

bonnie

Scottish for pretty

kilt · ceilidh · heather · thistle · bagpipes · Glasgow · Edinburgh · clans · whisky · burns

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gender

lassiesladdies

Informal term for boys

lads · boys · young men · fellows · blokes

age/maturity

lassiesold women

Aged female persons

crones · matrons · old maids · dames · spinsters

register/formality

lassiesyoung ladies

Youthful female persons

maidens · gentlewomen · demoiselles · damsels · ladies

Phrases
Family

lassitude, lassie, lassi, lassis

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