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Meanings of sonsie in anglès

(Of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves.

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      Usage of sonsie in anglès
      1
      I was just having a sonsie wee bit of a dream.
      The Scotch Twins
      2
      Ay, I'll no' be forgetting the sonsie tyke.
      Greyfriars Bobby
      3
      Dr. George Ross and Mr. Alexander McGregor shook Bobby's lifted paw and called him a sonsie rascal.
      Greyfriars Bobby
      4
      Ay, terriers are sonsie, leal dogs.
      Greyfriars Bobby
      5
      The likeness of some ewe-milking, cheese-making sonsie Hepburn hath descended to thee, and hath been fostered by country breeding.
      Unknown to History: A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland
      6
      Sandy remarked, "Ye wadna think, noo, sic a sonsie doggie wad be leevin' i' the murky auld kirkyaird."
      Greyfriars Bobby
      7
      The thoughts in the fifth stanza come finely up to my favourite idea- asweetsonsie lass: the last line, however, halts a little.
      The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs,...
      8
      One was a sonsie good-wife with any amount of bundles, the other a little old man with a face of almost superhuman wisdom.
      The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland
      9
      "The sonsie, wee-why ,he'sall but starved!"
      Greyfriars Bobby
      Sonsie through the time