SONNY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sonny mean? 

• SONNY (noun)
  The noun SONNY has 1 sense:

1. a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)

  Familiarity information: SONNY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SONNY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cub; lad; laddie; sonny; sonny boy

Hypernyms ("sonny" is a kind of...):

boy; male child (a youthful male person)

 Context examples 

"All right, sonny my lad—you'll do," said he.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“None of your keyholes for me, sonny,” he said; and I left them together and retired into the bar.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"Shoot into the thick of them! Shoot! sonny, shoot!" cried my companion.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have a son of my own, said he, as like you as two blocks, and he's all the pride of my 'art. But the great thing for boys is discipline, sonny—discipline. Now, if you had sailed along of Bill, you wouldn't have stood there to be spoke to twice—not you.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

By all means, sonny my boy!

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Come here, sonny,” says he.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Which way, sonny?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And here, sure enough, is my mate Bill, with a spy-glass under his arm, bless his old 'art, to be sure. 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.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)