Definition of "sonsy" [son•sy]

• Lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump (adjective)

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• "Elspeth would have called her sonsy, signifying bonny and buxom."
• "Given a decent education, a fair fortune, a good-looking and vigorous husband to whom she had taken a fancy, and no special temptation, and she might have been a blameless, merry, "sonsy" _commere_, and have died in an odor of very reasonable sanctity."
• "A 1920s guidebook described Shandy Hall as "sonsy"– a Scottish word meaning good-natured, and that's true."