sonsy

adjective /ˈsɒnsi/

1. lucky; fortunate; thriving; plump

   archaic

   […]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.

Where it comes from

From Scots, from Scottish Gaelic sonasach.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry sonsy (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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