sonsy
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 5
/ˈsɒnsi/
Definition of sonsy
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(Northumbria, Scotland, archaic)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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Etymology
From Scots, from Scottish Gaelic sonasach.
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