Did you mayhaps mean son?
Definitions
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves
Examples
“The sorrow of that moment will never be forgotten; indeed, I cannot even now think of my little pet with undimmed eyes -- he was a moment before so full of life and beauty, so fearless, such a "sonsie" little fellow; and then to hold the little golden green body in my hand and watch the fast-glazing eye, and think that I should never again have my cheery little friend to greet me and be glad at my coming, was one of those sharp pangs that true lovers of nature alone can understand.”
“And, "she added with a divine little pout," you haven't told me I was 'sonsie' or 'bonnie' once. ”
“The Burns supper traditionally sees the triumphant entrance of the haggis - accompanied by bagpipes - which is greeted with the recitation of Burns's Address To A Haggis: 'Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,/Great chieftain o 'the puddin-race!”
“Fair fa 'your honest, sonsie face & Welcome to America”
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
“News at Eleven Back Page: Fair fa' your-honest sonsie face”
News at Eleven (Back Page): Fair fa' your-honest sonsie face,
“Poetry & Poets in Rags: News at Eleven Back Page: Fair fa' your-honest sonsie face”
News at Eleven (Back Page): Fair fa' your-honest sonsie face,
“The patient replies: Fair fa your honest sonsie face”
“Dr Wendy Anderson, from the Department of English Language at the University of Glasgow, said: We're interested in the currency of distinctively Scottish words, such as gallus, canny, muckle, sonsie and braw.”
“Sometimes I met a shaggy white horse drawing a cart in which a dozen sonsie lasses, their faces browned by wind and their tresses blown back from their brows in most bewitching manner by the libertine breeze, were jolting homeward, singing as they went.”
“Crumbs for the birds" are scattered by kindly little hands everywhere in winter, and in many a house a pet sonsie little robin is a cherished visitor, always welcome to his small share of the good things of this life.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sonsie’.
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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some of my favorites
some of my favorite words
tintinnabulation, lascivious, ontology, chthonic, eldritch, squamous, verity, specificity, euphony, cacophony, therianthrope, morbidity and 157 more...
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Femmesque
Curious words having to do with women: positive or negative; feminine, observational, technical, weird, stupid, crass, etc. I loathe some of these words but I'm using this list as a catch-all... ev...
mittelschmerz, gynotikolobomasso..., ingenue, uxorious, hogminny, quim, suffragette, damsel, madame, parturient, testatrix, mediatrix and 188 more...
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asinden3's list
rumblegumption, quockerwodger, ostrobogulous, brumbal, ostrobogulous, soodle, chichie, jobbenowl, sonsie, rumblegumption
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Seven
turnskin, therianthrope, mimic, mimical, mimetic, animagus, selkie, incantatory, cynanthrope, therianthropy, nagual, pooka and 200 more...
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Body
knob, nob, lissom, straggly, offal, conk, sonsie, menarche, parturient, sallow, grizzled, wizened and 1 more...
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RB's list
Great words that have become obsolete
rumblegumption, antisygy, skilligolee, tropes, sonsie, tors, kernynge, jobbenowl, chichie, soodle, tilly-vally, brumbal and 15 more...
Tweets
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bilby There's a wee bit more to the picture, RB. See sonsie in the Dictionary of Scots Language. Apr 15, 2009
super-rb sonsie- fat Oct 17, 2008