noun
- used as a familiar form of address for a young man or boy
Usage: informal
Examples
- Listen here, sonny, you need to show some respect.
- Come along, sonny, your mother is waiting.
- Now sonny, that’s not how we behave in this house.
- The old man called every young customer ‘sonny.’
- Sonny, you’re too young to understand these things.
- What do you think you’re doing, sonny?