Sonsy

Quick meaning: Sonsy is an adjective meaning (archaic, Scotland, Northumbria) lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump.

Meaning

(archaic, Scotland, Northumbria) lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump.

Example Sentences

[…]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.

Word Forms

• soncie
• soncy
• sonsie

Synonyms for sonsy

Depending on context, synonyms include voluptuous, buxom, shapely, curvaceous, full-bosomed, bosomy.

Antonyms for sonsy

Common opposites include unsonsy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shapely, buxom, voluptuous, curvy, curvaceous, full-bosomed.

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