Sc. Also lammie, lammy. [See -IE, -Y.] A term of endearment for a lamb and hence for a child or young person.
1718. Ramsay, Christ’s Kirk Gr., III. xx. She her man like a lammy led Hame.
1768. Ross, Helenore (1789), 14. For tweesh twa hillocks the poor lambie lies.
1785. Burns, Holy Fair, iii. The third cam up, hap-step-an’-lowp, As light as ony lambie.
1801. Macneill, Poems, II. 84. I held her to my beating heart, My young, my smiling Lammie!
