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