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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Not indigenous to the soil, but a firmly rooted, exotic growth, was the sonsy Scotch family whom Miselle was taken to see, the Sunday after her arrival.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various
"Is she a pretty girl?" said the Duke; "her sister does not get beyond a good comely sonsy lass."
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Scott, Walter, Sir
Sometimes it was the rickety, black-timbered porch, garlanded with vine; a sonsy, blond-haired young Flemish maiden sat there, and twirled the bobbins on a lace-cushion, in a warm yellow flicker of sunshine.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
Davey saw no more of her than her sonsy face, surrounded with the fair wisps of curls.
From The Pioneers by Prichard, Katharine Susannah
By Sophie May In the green valley of the Yarrow, near the castle-keep of Norham, dwelt an honest sonsy little family, whose only grief was an unhappy son, named Robin.
From The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales by Patten, William
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