Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lucky; happy; good-humored; well-conditioned; buxom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Scot. See
soncy .
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- adjective UK, Scotland, dialect
lucky ;fortunate ;thriving ;plump
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves
Etymologies
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Examples
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Elspeth would have called her sonsy, signifying bonny and buxom.
Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005
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Given a decent education, a fair fortune, a good-looking and vigorous husband to whom she had taken a fancy, and no special temptation, and she might have been a blameless, merry, "sonsy" _commere_, and have died in an odor of very reasonable sanctity.
The Celibates Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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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.
Watershed 2010
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‘Ye may swear that,’ replied the provost — ‘as black a Jacobite as the auld leaven can make him; but a sonsy, merry companion, that none of us think it worth while to break wi’ for all his brags and his clavers.
Redgauntlet 2008
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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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It ain't easy for a sonsy matron with blonde curls to look like the wrath of God, but she was managing uncommon well.
Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999
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But Jock cam' to questions, and being a fallow/Stout, buirdly and sonsy, he soon pleased her taste,/And awa' went the twasome, haup-jaup in their daffin',/Thro' wynds and blind alleys no time for to waste.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various
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Groaning under the '_sonsy haggis_,' [85] and many other savoury dainties, unseen for twelve months before, the relish communicated to the company, by the appearance of the festive board, is more easily conceived than described.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson
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John studied her face for a moment It was a sonsy and simple face, and her eyes were not unkindly.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
knitandpurl commented on the word sonsy
"Mrs. Lale was a sonsy, comfortable-looking creature, and it seemed as though a smile would better fit her countenance than its angular look of disapprobation."
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho, p 123
November 13, 2015
qms commented on the word sonsy
There was a bold fellow from Swansea
Who went by the moniker Chauncy.
He liked beer and cheese
And a smotherinq squeeze
With ladies good-natured and sonsy.
March 3, 2018