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tass

tass

See also: tāss and TASS

English

Alternative forms

Noun

tass ‎(plural tasses)

  1. (rare or obsolete) a heap, pile.

Etymology 2

Compare French tasse ‎(“cup, cupful”).

Noun

tass ‎(plural tasses)

  1. A cup or cupful.
    • 1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet
      "Here, Dougal," said the Laird, "gie Steenie a tass of brandy down stairs, till I count the siller and write the receipt."

Anagrams

Swedish

Noun

tass c

  1. a paw (animal's foot)
    (räcka) vacker tass
    give a paw
    Den sov på verandan med huvudet mot tassarna och svansen i en graciös sväng runt benen.
    It slept on the porch with its head on its paws and the tail graciously curled around the legs.
  2. (slang) a hand
    Bort med tassarna!
    Hands off! Paws off!

Declension

Inflection of tass 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tass tassen tassar tassarna
Genitive tass tassens tassars tassarnas

Related terms

  • baktass
  • framtass
  • hundtass
  • kattass
  • tassa
  • tassavtryck
  • tassemark
  • tassfot
  • tassig
  • vacker tass

References

Etymology

Partly from Middle English tas ‎(“heap”), from Old French tas ‎(“heap”), from Old Frankish *tas ‎(“mass, pile”); and partly from Middle English taas ‎(“heap, mow of corn”), from Old English tas ‎(“heap, mow of grain”); both from Proto-Germanic *tasaz, *tassaz ‎(“heap, mow, stack”), from Proto-Indo-European *dāy- ‎(“to divide, split, section, part, separate”). Related to Middle Dutch tas, tasse ‎(Dutch tas, “heap, pile”), Middle Low German tas ‎(“mow of hay or wheat”), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌰𐍃𐍃 ‎(ungatass, “disorganised, irregular”); and possibly also to Old High German zetten ‎(“to straw, fertilise”), Old Norse tað ‎(“spread dung”). See tath.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tæs/

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