sonsy

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
8
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈsɒnsi/

Definition of sonsy

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (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.

Anagrams of sonsy

2 plays · some not in Scrabble

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