Oh, dude, a male counterpart for a bonnie lass would be a strapping lad. So, like, if you're looking for a charming dude to match that lovely lady, you've got yourself a strapping lad. It's like a match made in Scottish heaven, or something.
No, "lad" typically refers to a young boy or informal term for a young man. It specifically does not imply gender as male.
The opposite of lass is lad, which refers to a young boy or man.
The masculine gender equivalent of "lass" is "lad."
The masculine gender equivalent for "lass" is "lad."
"My, such a bonny lass!"From the Oxford English Dictionary:bonny (also bonnie) chiefly Scottish N. Engl.adjective ( -nier , -niest )attractive; beautiful : a bonny lass.• (of a baby) plump and healthy-looking.• sizable; considerable (usually expressing approval) : it's worth a thousand pounds, a bonny sum.
the answer is laddie
In English there are no masculine or feminine forms. English uses gender specific nouns for male or female.The noun lass is a word for a young female, a girl; the noun lad is a word for a young male, a boy.
male boy
There are many words used to refer to males and females in Ireland. The male equivalent of lass would be lad.
The noun for a girl is lass. The corresponding noun for a boy is lad.
Bonnie Lass is a Scottish expression not Irish. You must be referring to the song 'bonnie(attractive-scot) Irish lass(young woman-scot)'. Bonnie Wee lass is certainly more common than the question which I've never heard (wee meaning small). A Colleen (Cailín) is probably the closest meaning a girl or lass. There is a lot of confusion in the US over the Scottish and the Irish probably given that many Americans are descended from one or the other and through intermarrying now both, combined with the fact of the Celtic (Goidelic or Q Celts) connections between the countries. This has led to other confusions such as the erroneous wearing of kilts and tartans (most invented by the Scott's manufacturers in the 1990's for the tourists) by Irish descended Americans.
Wee(Little) Bonnie(pretty) Lass(Girl) It's not Irish but Scottish anyway. --- Yes. WEE=adj. use has been current in southern Eng. since c.1600. BONNIE= derivitive of the Latin term "bon" meaning "good." LASS=Old Sweedish. Middle Irish. OSw. "løsk kona" unmarried woman (spec. use of the sense 'unoccupied' or 'having no fixed abode'; cf. Olcel. lǫskr 'weak, good for nothing').
Bonnie or bonny means pretty, attractive, or excellent, as in "She's a bonny lass."
A red haired Scottish highland beauty! Possibly washing said hair in a Loch. A broader definition of bonnie lass refers to an attractive woman, in general. It isn't restricted to a beautiful, red-haired Scottish woman. The narrower definition isn't wrong, but these days it used less than broader definition just mentioned.
Bonny or bonnie is a Scottish dialect word for pretty. So someone in Scotland might say 'she's a bonnie wee lass' meaning 'she's a pretty little girl'.
lad. or if your talking about more than one then its lassie or laddie
In English there are no masculine or feminine forms. English uses gender specific nouns for a male or a female.The gender specific noun for a young male is lad.The gender specific noun for a young female is lass or lassie.