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son·ny

 (sŭn′ē)
n. pl. son·nies
Used as a familiar form of address for a boy or young man.
[Diminutive of son.]
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sonny

(ˈsʌnɪ)
n, pl -nies
a familiar or patronizing term of address to a boy or man
[C19: from son + -y2]
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son•ny

(ˈsʌn i)

n.
little son (often used as a familiar term of address to a boy).
[1840–50]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.sonny - a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
laddie, sonny boy, cub, lad
boy, male child - a youthful male person; "the baby was a boy"; "she made the boy brush his teeth every night"; "most soldiers are only boys in uniform"
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Translations

sonny

[ˈsʌnɪ] N → hijo m
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

sonny

[ˈsʌni] n → fiston m
Hallo, sonny → Salut, fiston.son of a bitch son-of-a-bitch n → fils m de pute
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

sonny

n (inf) → Junge m; sonny Jim (inf) → mein Junge m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

sonny

[ˈsʌnɪ] n (fam) → figlio mio, ragazzo mio
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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"None of your keyholes for me, sonny," he said; and I left them together and retired into the bar.
You and me'll just go back into the parlour, sonny, and get behind the door, and we'll give Bill a little surprise--bless his 'art, I say again.
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Joey called David and me "Sonny," and asked David, who addressed him as "Mr.
"All I ask of you," Joey said with a break in his voice, "is to call him after me, and always to give him a sausage, sonny, of a Saturday night."
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If you hadn't've spoke up slick I'd have bu'st your face in, sonny. I would, sure!
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"There's no difficulty about that, sonny," answered Flanagan.
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"`You'll do what I want you to do, sonny,' said Marshall, `or I'll jest turn you over my knee and give you one of those spankings your mother forgot.'
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"It's all right, sonny," Billy laughed, as he drove on.
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After walking a ways, Jurgis met a little ragamuffin whom he hailed: "Hey, sonny!" The boy cocked one eye at him--he knew that Jurgis was a "jailbird" by his shaven head.
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Writer, historian, antiques expert and museum curator Martin 'Sonny' Tinio Jr.
Martin 'Sonny' Tinio Jr., antiques expert and social historian, passes away; 76
Sonny's Smokehouse may be the quintessential small-town barbecue joint.
sonny's smokehouse
As a wise matriarch, Ramona Feltes had enough sense to know a place as rural and uncorrupted as her family's Sonny Acres Farm eventually would become a piece of the past.
Sonny Acres could carry on Preserve: Who would be running the operation at Sonny Acres is unclear

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