bonny

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English *boni (attested only rarely as bon, boun), probably from Old French bon, feminine bonne (good), from Latin bonus (good). See bounty, and compare bonus, boon.

Adjective

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bonny (comparative bonnier or more bonny, superlative bonniest or most bonny)

  1. (Geordie) Alternative spelling of bonnie (attractive).
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Etymology 2

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Clipping of bonfire.

Noun

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bonny (plural bonnies)

  1. (Northern Ireland, informal) Alternative spelling of bonnie (bonfire).

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Noun

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bonny (plural bonnies)

  1. (mining) A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bonny”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Adjective

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bonny (comparative mair bonny, superlative maist bonny)

  1. handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful

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Noun

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bonny

  1. Alternative form of boney

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 27