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Meanings of sonsie in English

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

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Usage of sonsie in English
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
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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,...
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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