sonny
pronunciation
How to pronounce sonny in British English:
UK [ˈsʌni]
How to pronounce sonny in American English:
US [ˈsʌni]
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- Noun:
- a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
Word Origin
- sonny (n.)
- "small boy," 1833, from son + -y (3). As a familiar form of address to one younger or inferior, from 1852. The song "Sonny Boy" (Jolson) was popular 1928.
Example
- 1. Blond milton said him and sonya would take sonny in .
- 2. How do you know about sonny ?
- 3. His single mother had struggled to provide for her six kids , he said , and when times got tough , sonny cochrane made sure their utility bills were paid .
- 4. Last december , in a canvas tent erected on a building site in rural east mississippi , haley barbour worked the dirt-floored space as deftly as sonny rollins on a saxophone .
- 5. Some , like sonny miller , a lawyer at dorsey & whitney in minnesota and member of the legislative committee of the minnesota bar association 's probate and trust law section said he understood the agency 's reluctance to pay out benefits to posthumously conceived children .