bonny
See also: bonnie
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒni
Etymology 1
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
bonny (comparative more bonny, superlative most bonny)
- (Geordie) Alternative spelling of bonnie
- 1820, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
- Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matin chime ere he quitted his bowl.
References
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
- Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[1]
- Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
- “bonny”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Etymology 2
Noun
bonny (plural bonnies)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
Scots
Adjective
bonny (comparative mair bonny, superlative maist bonny)
- Alternative spelling of bonnie
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