What does sonsy mean?
Sonsy means (archaic, Scotland, Northumbria) lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump.
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/ˈsɒnsi/ · adjective
(archaic, Scotland, Northumbria) lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump.
[…]as black a Jacobite as the auld leaven can make him; but a sonsy, merry companion, that none of us think it worth while to break wi' for all his brags and his clavers.
The housemaid at the boarding-house where we have stayed since we left Heathstock is a fat, sonsy, good-natured girl, perfectly ignorant and stupid, but she has not been long in the colony, and seems willing to learn.
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Sonsy means (archaic, Scotland, Northumbria) lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump.
Common synonyms include voluptuous, buxom, shapely, curvaceous.
Possible antonyms include unsonsy.
[…]as black a Jacobite as the auld leaven can make him; but a sonsy, merry companion, that none of us think it worth while to break wi' for all his brags and his clavers.
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