sonny
noun
little son (often used as a familiar term of address to a boy).
sonnies
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pluralof sonny.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"You 'ear, sonnies?" remarked Bindle, turning to the passive six.
From Adventures of Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
My sonnies, I’ve got the very white trousers that I wore, at home in box now.
From Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school by Thomas Hardy
But for a quire to lose the treble, why, my sonnies, you may so well lose your .
From Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school by Thomas Hardy
“You might live wi’ that man, my sonnies, a hundred years, and never know there was anything in him.”
From Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school by Thomas Hardy
"Then," said the fiddler, "I'll venture to name that the right and proper thing is 'The Soldier's Joy'—there being a gallant soldier married into the farm—hey, my sonnies, and gentlemen all?"
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
