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
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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 Charles Rogers
A change came over her sonsy, smiling face.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
She listened to the talk of the men with a faint smile about her weary lips, her eyes upon the sonsy range.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
Quoth Rab to Kate, My sonsy clear, vol. ii.,
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
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 George Douglas Brown
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