Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A familiar form of address in speaking to a boy.
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- proper noun A
nickname of achild . - proper noun A male
given name .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
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Examples
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[Illustration: "'AUNT KATE WANTS SONNY BOY,' SHE SAID."] "You must remember not to give Bevis pound-cake when I'm gone," said Sonny
Sonny Boy Sophie Miriam Swett 1885
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The word Sonny applied was warthog : noun, verb, adjective.
Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006
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The word Sonny applied was warthog : noun, verb, adjective.
Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006
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The word Sonny applied was warthog : noun, verb, adjective.
Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006
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There was another musician by the name of Sonny Ray that was a genius three times over, but so many people don't know who he was and now these geniuses are all gone.
Mike Ragogna: A World Of Sound: Chatting & Improvising With David S. Ware Mike Ragogna 2011
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There was another musician by the name of Sonny Ray that was a genius three times over, but so many people don't know who he was and now these geniuses are all gone.
Mike Ragogna: A World Of Sound: Chatting & Improvising With David S. Ware Mike Ragogna 2011
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Each brother brings something different to the table; Sonny is headstrong, but violent and impulsive.
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But he remembered her in Sonny's arms under the monkey-pods and determined on further cruelty.
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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James Forsyth, the Spectator's political editor, on hearing me mutter something about Cher's outfit, asked: "You think Cher – as in Sonny and Cher – is fashionable?"
X Factor 2010 tops the agenda around the Westminster water cooler Anushka Asthana 2010
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Having written not one but two Hughes scripts, Melvin and Howard, and one called Sonny for Universal, never produced, Goldman knew the territory better than anyone.
STAR PETER BISKIND 2010
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