ADJECTIVE
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(of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves
Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes
a curvy young woman in a tight dress
How To Use sonsy In A Sentence
- “Is she a pretty girl?” said the Duke; “her sister does not get beyond a good comely sonsy lass.” The Heart of Mid-Lothian
- We looked for our share of the victuals, but they told me old bl -- bl "---- Again he hesitated, evidently afraid that some" unsonsy "thing was behind him. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)
- 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. The Celibates
- John studied her face for a moment It was a sonsy and simple face, and her eyes were not unkindly. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
- But Jock cam' to questions, and being a fallow/Stout, buirdly and sonsy, he soon pleased her taste,/And awa' went the twasome, haup-jaup in their daffin',/Thro' wynds and blind alleys no time for to waste. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
- 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. The Celibates
- Elspeth would have called her sonsy, signifying bonny and buxom. Flashman on the March
- McKinnon thrang with the dealers, and Mirren not far off still sonsy -- when we passed there I saw that Margaret was all trembling; and when we saw Bryde, tall and swarthy, coming to us, I saw the smiling in her eyes and her face aglow. The McBrides A Romance of Arran
- But it will be past sunset afore I get back frae the Captain's, and at these unsonsy hours the glen has a bad name; there's something no that canny about auld Janet Gellatley. Waverley — Volume 2
- But Jock cam' to questions, and being a fallow/Stout, buirdly and sonsy, he soon pleased her taste,/And awa' went the twasome, haup-jaup in their daffin',/Thro' wynds and blind alleys no time for to waste. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
