sonsy

• soncie, soncy, sonsie

From Scots, from Scottish Gaelic sonasach.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɒnsi/
• Rhymes: -ɒnsi

sonsy (comparative more sonsy, superlative most sonsy)

1. (archaic, UK, Scotland) lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump

   Antonym: unsonsy

   • 1824, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 10, in Redgauntlet:

     […] 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.

   • 1866 January, Mary Anne Barker, “Letter VI”, in Station Life in New Zealand‎^[1], London: Macmillan & co, published 1870, page 44:

     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.

• (lucky): See also Thesaurus:lucky
• (plump): See also Thesaurus:overweight or Thesaurus:voluptuous

• unsonsy

• “sonsy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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