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Sonny   /sˈəni/   Listen
Sonny

noun
1.
A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy).  Synonyms: cub, lad, laddie, sonny boy.



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"Sonny" Quotes from Famous Books



... so many different ideas about what God sees and takes note of, that it's hard to say, sonny. Of course you remember that the Bible says not one sparrow falls to the ground but ...
— Penelope's Postscripts • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... sayin' nothin' about that. But clothes don't make ther man—or boy, either. How long have you been West, Sonny?" ...
— Young Wild West at "Forbidden Pass" - and, How Arietta Paid the Toll • An Old Scout

... "Say, sonny," he sneered, "that don't go—see. Them tin fakes don't git by. If you're one of them guys, you come here wit' McLaughlin, and youse can rubber. But we've had enough of this stuff. Them dames is no blind, ...
— The Sturdy Oak - A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors • Samuel Merwin, et al.

... that was a big bluff I put up!" sighed Earl Usher to Cupid, as he slid his watch into the little boy's hand. "If Tobias had taken me, I'd 'a' bin up a tree! Sure you can get off, sonny?" ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson

... drink," he had to explain several times, "because my mother doesn't like it." For some reason this explanation seemed to be perfectly satisfactory. One man alone sneered at him. "Does she feed yer still on milk, sonny?" he asked. "No," said Peter, "but everything I have comes from her, and that's the kind of a mother a fellow wants to please; don't you think so?" The sneerer hesitated, and finally said he "guessed it was." So Peter was made one of them, and smoked and listened. He said very little, ...
— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford


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