tass

See also tāss, and TASS

English

Alternative forms

• tas

Etymology 1

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  (ungatass, “disorganised, irregular”); and possibly also to Old High German zetten (“to straw, fertilise”), Old Norse tað (“spread dung”). See tath.

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

• sats

---

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

Declension of tass

	singular		plural
Common	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

• tass in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)