sonsy
/ˈsɒnsi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…]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."
- "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."
Etymology
From Scots, from Scottish Gaelic sonasach.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, sonasach
Usage
Inflected Forms
more sonsy (comparative)
most sonsy (superlative)
soncie (alternative)
soncy (alternative)
sonsie (alternative)