Here's a word to cheer up some rather troubled times. It's used in Scotland, Ireland, and some Northern parts of England and it means all sorts of good things: comely, curvy, cheerful, good-natured and lucky.
As if this isn't comforting enough sonsie can also mean large, as in a helping of food, or hefty, as in a knock on the head...
...hm. That's possibly not quite so much fun. Not unless it happens to someone else, anyway.
And even that's not the end of sonsie. It can mean sensible (this can apply either to people, or to an easily-tamed breed of animal).
See what a wonderful word it is? Why, sonsie has over the years been used to mean pretty much anything admirable. Robert Burns even used it to describe a haggis, though what a haggis has to be cheerful about I cannot for the life of me imagine.
I'll leave you with a sonsie blessing: sonse fa ye.
It means good luck.
Word To Use Today: sonsie or sonsy. This word comes from the Scots Gaelic sonas, which means good fortune.
Love it. And will use it esp about big helpings of cake1
ReplyDeleteBrilliant. It has a nice juicy sweet sound to it, doesn't it. Just right for cake.
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