Meaning & use
Sonsie
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Having a healthy, plump, and cheerful appearance; suggestive of good fortune or comfort (Scots dialect).
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The farmer's wife had a sonsie face that put everyone at ease.
Robert Burns praised the haggis as a 'sonsie' pudding in his famous poem.
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This Scots dialect word was made famous by Robert Burns in "Address to a Haggis": "Great chieftain o the puddin-race... Sonsie face."
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