"sonsy" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Scots, from Scottish Gaelic sonasach.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more sonsy",
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        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most sonsy",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "word": "unsonsy"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1824, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 10, in Redgauntlet:",
          "text": "[…]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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1866 January 5, Mary Anne Barker, “Letter VI”, in Station Life in New Zealand, London: Macmillan & co, published 1870, page 44:",
          "text": "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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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "lucky",
          "lucky"
        ],
        [
          "fortunate",
          "fortunate"
        ],
        [
          "thriving",
          "thriving"
        ],
        [
          "plump",
          "plump"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, Scotland, dialect) lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "voluptuous"
        },
        {
          "word": "soncie"
        },
        {
          "word": "soncy"
        },
        {
          "word": "sonsie"
        }
      ],
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        "UK",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɒnsi/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒnsi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sonsy"
}

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    {
      "word": "unsonsy"
    }
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      "expansion": "Scottish Gaelic sonasach",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Scots, from Scottish Gaelic sonasach.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more sonsy",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most sonsy",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "unsonsy"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1824, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 10, in Redgauntlet:",
          "text": "[…]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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1866 January 5, Mary Anne Barker, “Letter VI”, in Station Life in New Zealand, London: Macmillan & co, published 1870, page 44:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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      ],
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        ],
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          "fortunate"
        ],
        [
          "thriving",
          "thriving"
        ],
        [
          "plump",
          "plump"
        ]
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        "(UK, Scotland, dialect) lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump"
      ],
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɒnsi/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒnsi"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "voluptuous"
    },
    {
      "word": "soncie"
    },
    {
      "word": "soncy"
    },
    {
      "word": "sonsie"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sonsy"
}