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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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 E. Rameur
For ladies, we had her Grace of—; and her daughter Lady—, a fine, buxom, sonsy lass, with more colour than, I am sorry to say, is often seen among fine ladies.
From Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 by Sir George Otto Trevelyan
She was a big, sonsy woman, with full-blown peony cheeks and large, dreamy, brown eyes.
From Further Chronicles of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Davey saw no more of her than her sonsy face, surrounded with the fair wisps of curls.
From The Pioneers by Katharine Susannah Prichard
Refusing her kind offer with thanks, I produced a sonsy specimen of Betty's laundry-work, which I rolled round my right-hand thumb.
From Betty Grier by Joseph Laing Waugh
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