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sonsy

adj
/ˈsɒnsi/

Etymology

From Scots, from Scottish Gaelic sonasach.

  1. derived from sonasach

Definitions

  1. lucky

    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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