(Of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves.
1I was just having a sonsie wee bit of a dream.
2Ay, I'll no' be forgetting the sonsie tyke.
3Dr. George Ross and Mr. Alexander McGregor shook Bobby's lifted paw and called him a sonsie rascal.
4Ay, terriers are sonsie, leal dogs.
5The likeness of some ewe-milking, cheese-making sonsie Hepburn hath descended to thee, and hath been fostered by country breeding.
6Sandy remarked, "Ye wadna think, noo, sic a sonsie doggie wad be leevin' i' the murky auld kirkyaird."
7The thoughts in the fifth stanza come finely up to my favourite idea- asweetsonsie lass: the last line, however, halts a little.
8One was a sonsie good-wife with any amount of bundles, the other a little old man with a face of almost superhuman wisdom.
9"The sonsie, wee-why ,he'sall but starved!"