sonsy
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Lucky; happy; good-humored; well-conditioned; buxom.
Examples
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Elspeth would have called her sonsy, signifying bonny and buxom.
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A 1920s guidebook described Shandy Hall as "sonsy"– a Scottish word meaning good-natured, and that's true.
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It ain't easy for a sonsy matron with blonde curls to look like the wrath of God, but she was managing uncommon well.
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“Is she a pretty girl?” said the Duke; “her sister does not get beyond a good comely sonsy lass.”
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I like her, a sensible, sonsy woman, and I like him too, although his solemn, priggish airs make me tired, but I cannot bear the crowd they get round them: all the cranks and oddities and smug, self-sufficient, interfering people seem to get into their house, and they're all reforming something or uplifting something else or generally bleating against this country.
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She was a big, sonsy woman, with full-blown peony cheeks and large, dreamy, brown eyes.
Note
The word 'sonsy' comes from a Scots Gaelic word meaning 'good fortune, happiness'.
