or son′sie
- buxom or plump
- good-natured
Origin of sonsy
from dialect, dialectal sonse, prosperity, plenty from Gaelic sonas, good fortune + -ysonsy
sonsyWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Adjective
(comparative more sonsy, superlative most sonsy)
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