sonsy
Americanadjective
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strong and healthy; robust.
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agreeable; good-natured.
adjective
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plump; buxom; comely
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cheerful; good-natured
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lucky
Etymology
Origin of sonsy
1525–35; sonse “prosperity, good fortune” ( Middle English ( Scots ) < Scots Gaelic sonas, Middle Irish sonus, derivative of sona “prosperous, happy,” Old Irish son ) + -y 1 ( def. ); cf. donsie
Example Sentences
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There was just one other inmate of this sequestered apartment—a large, sonsy, gaucy cat.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various
David, as he trudged sorrowfully homeward across the fields, carried with him the mental picture of a plump, sonsy woman, in a trim dress of plum-coloured homespun and ruffled blue-check apron, haloed by candlelight.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Judging from her round, sonsy, rosy face, you never could have imagined her to have been mad.
From Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Moodie, Susanna
He is a fribble, a sonsy faddle, whose conceits veer with the breeze like a creaking weather-vane.
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
She wasna what people would ca' a pretty girl, for I hae seen her; but she had a sonsy face and intelligent een.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 by Wilson, John Mackay
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