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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Still these sonsy Scots kept a good heart and were able to jest at their misfortunes with the grim humour that belongs to their race.
From The New North by Cameron, Agnes Deans
She tied up her sonsy beast, that was, like herself, fat as pats of butter, to the yettpost of the miser's garden.
From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
He was as proud of the sonsy house as Gourlay himself, if for a different reason, and he used to boast of it to his comrades.
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
Thank you for all your kindness to me this summer,' just as I would have said it to the sonsy, bustling, keen-eyed housewife I expected her to be when I came.
From Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
There 's sonsy James, wha wears a wig, A widower fresh and canty, Though turn'd o' sixty, gaes fu' trig, He 's rich, and rowes in plenty.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
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