lass

1. A girl; also (by extension), a young woman.Examples: "Jenny Hill, a pale, overwrought, pretty Salvation lass of 18, comes in through the yard gate, leading Peter Shirley, a half hardened, half worn-out elderly man, weak with hunger."Synonyms: babe, bint, bird, cake, chick, colleen, cutty, damoisellespecifically

2. (especially Geordie, Wearside) A sweetheart.Examples: "But firſt him ſeemed fit, that vvounded Knight / To viſite, after this nights perillous paſſe, / And to ſalute him, if he vvere in plight, / And eke [also] that Lady his faire louely laſſe."; "It vvas a Louer, and his laſſe, / VVith a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, / That o're the greene corne feild did paſſe, / In the ſpring time, the onely pretty rang [ring] time, / VVhen Birds do ſing, hey ding a ding, ding."; "The youthfull Bull muſt vvander in the VVood; / Behind the Mountain, or beyond the Flood: / […] / VVith tvvo fair Eyes his Miſtreſs burns his Breaſt; / He looks, and languiſhes, and leaves his Reſt; / Forſakes his Food, and pining for the Laſs, / Is joyleſs of the Grove, and ſpurns the grovving graſs."Synonyms: babber, babe, precious, bae, baby, babycakes, bubba, bullyGeordieWearsideespecially

3. (Northern England, Scotland) A female servant; a maid, a maidservant.Examples: "[…] I'll tell ye that after we are done wi' our supper, for it will may be no be sae weel to speak about it while that lang-lugged limmer o' a lass is gaun flisking in and out o' the room."; "[S]ure aneugh, the lass washed clottered blood aff the carpet the neist day."; "She fleyed Johnnie awa' frae the door when he was for daffin' wi' the serving lasses."Northern-EnglandScotland

4. (Scotland, familiar) A term of address for a woman, or a female animal.Examples: "As fair art thou, my bonie laſs, / So deep in luve am I; / And I will luve thee ſtill, my Dear, / Till a' the ſeas gang dry."; ""Hi, Juno, lass—hi, old girl; down, Daph, down," said Wardle, caressing the dogs."Scotlandfamiliar