sonny
noun
little son (often used as a familiar term of address to a boy).
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sonny
1 American
[suhn-ee]
/ ˈsʌn i /
noun
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sonnies
plural
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little son (often used as a familiar term of address to a boy).
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(used as a term of direct address to express contempt, derision, etc.).
No, sonny, you can't park there!
Sonny
2
American
[suhn-ee]
/ ˈsʌn i /
noun
sonny
British
/ ˈsʌnɪ /
noun
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It’s not like, ‘Hey get off my lawn, and baseball was better when I was a kid, sonny.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2018
The obvious reply for Darling would have been along the lines of: while you've been watching I've been doing it, sonny.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2010
Sony was meant to appeal to Americans--a nod to "sonny boy," which was a phrase that was popular in Japan during the 1950s.
From Inc ● Mar. 24, 2010
You'll have to wait until half-time for that sonny!
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2010
“Dang!” said Grandpa, “Miss Lucille must a-gone to the bathroom. Crank it agin, sonny boy.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Tongue removed both Marsh and Crawley before he combined with Sonny Baker to tear through the middle order, the latter finishing with 2-39, while Sunrisers opener Ryan Rickelton was left stranded on 54 not out.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
“I think we’re all being overlooked,” said her brother, Sonny Haynes, who worries mining would reduce the family catch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Cher and Sonny were together for more than a decade, tying the knot in an unofficial ceremony in 1964, when she was just 17, before legally marrying in 1969.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
The memories Sonny eventually surfaces are more potent than anything she makes up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Sonny and Miles make their way over to us.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
But I was out-talked, sonnies, as has happened to me by my own wife, time and time agen.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell
Ladies, left hand to yer sonnies; Alaman; grand right an' left; Balance all an' swing yer honies — Pick 'em up an' feel their heft.
From Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp by John Avery Lomax
He says this, sonnies, loud and clear: 'Tell me this,' he says, 'how do they keep the crows off the wheat when you fellers comes to town?'
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell
"Spoasing you go out, Bill and Sam, my sonnies," said Cap'n Jack.
From The Birthright by Joseph Hocking
"You 'ear, sonnies?" remarked Bindle, turning to the passive six.
From Adventures of Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
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