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Definition of bonny in English: bonny(also bonnie) adjectivebonniest, bonnierˈbɒniˈbɑni Northern English, Scottish 1Attractive or beautiful. Example sentencesExamples - I didn't really know Laura but I've seen her in the village and she was a bonny girl.
- It was not an auspicious start for bonny prince Charlie.
- From here we can also see cars blitzing their way north as the A9 snakes through some of Scotland's most spectacular scenery close to bonny Loch Alvie.
- Isobelle is my grand niece and a bonny little thing she is.
- Why do you need a bus when you have a bonny lass to drive you to school today?
- ‘Give us a smile, bonny lass,’ said the young sentry in a sweet Geordie voice as I walked past pretending to be invisible.
- She is a larger than life Earth Mother: bonny, capable, strong and energetic.
- The mask of Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) is anything but bonnie.
- It was truly kind of the hairdresser to come to my house with his bonny male assistant.
- These powerful images are a far cry from Scottish artist John Finnie's 1864 idealised Maids of All Work, looking blithe and bonny in crisp cottons.
- We were driving around Speyside the other day looking for bonny purple heather and found that the hillsides were blanketed with the dull cerise of willow-herb.
- ‘You've come a long way,’ said Naomi, the casting director's assistant who was bonny and bright.
- Outwardly bonny, Nikki is damaged by her past, and each month with Hamish is marked off as an anniversary.
- He has a devoted wife and a brace of bonnie offspring.
- One of the younger men on the boat laughed at me, and called me bonny lass for having done such a thing.
Synonyms beautiful, attractive, handsome, pretty, gorgeous, good-looking, nice-looking, well favoured, fetching, prepossessing, ravishing, stunning lovely, nice, sweet, cute, appealing, endearing, adorable, lovable, charming, dear, darling, delightful, winsome, winning blooming, bouncing, healthy, fine informal divine, drop-dead gorgeous, easy on the eye, adorbs Australian/New Zealand informal beaut literary beauteous archaic fair, comely, taking - 1.1 (of a baby) plump and healthy-looking.
Example sentencesExamples - There will be a dog show at 1pm, bonny baby at 2.30 pm, fancy dress at 3pm followed by Best Dressed Lady at 3.30 pm.
- We have events for all generations from bonny baby, kids fancy dress, children's tug-o-war to our most appropriately dressed lady and gentleman.
- The church bells rang out as families with bonny babies filled the church for a baptism service.
- She now holds her bonny baby as if he is the only light in her life.
- There are just a few days left to enter your bonny baby into this year's Baby of the Year competition.
- 1.2 Sizeable (usually expressing approval)
it's worth a thousand pounds, a bonny sum Example sentencesExamples - Keith believes his Grandpa got less than £5000 for the farm (still, a bonny sum in the early 50s).
Synonyms fairly large, substantial, considerable, respectable, significant, largish, biggish, decent, decent-sized, generous, handsome
nounˈbɒniˈbɑni my bonnyliterary Used as a form of address for one's beloved or baby. Example sentencesExamples - My bonnie lies over the ocean.
- So bring back me bonnie to moi.
- My bonnie lies over the sea.
Derivatives adverb noun Round, plump or normal-sized women have become the secretly desired, the quiet lust of men pushed towards boniness rather than bonniness. Example sentencesExamples - Equally effective is Brigge's anxious scrutiny of newborn Samuel, who flutters between listless near-death and bubble-blowing bonniness.
- The spoken performances, though, lack the bonniness of Branagh's earlier Shakespeare romance, ‘Much Ado About Nothing,’.
Origin Late 15th century: perhaps related to Old French bon 'good'. bonus from late 18th century: This was probably originally Stock Exchange slang, coming from Latin bonus ‘good’. Very recently—too recently to get into most dictionaries—the word malus has been recorded for a fine or penalty, based on Latin malus ‘bad’ on the pattern of bonus. The French form of bonus, bon may lie behind the mainly Scottish bonny ‘good, fair’. Bounty (Middle English) goes back to the same source. See also bonanza
Rhymes Bonnie, Connie, johnny, Lonnie, Ronnie, Suwannee Definition of bonny in US English: bonny(also bonnie) adjectiveˈbänēˈbɑni Scottish, Northern English 1Attractive or beautiful. Example sentencesExamples - He has a devoted wife and a brace of bonnie offspring.
- The mask of Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) is anything but bonnie.
- From here we can also see cars blitzing their way north as the A9 snakes through some of Scotland's most spectacular scenery close to bonny Loch Alvie.
- ‘Give us a smile, bonny lass,’ said the young sentry in a sweet Geordie voice as I walked past pretending to be invisible.
- It was truly kind of the hairdresser to come to my house with his bonny male assistant.
- Outwardly bonny, Nikki is damaged by her past, and each month with Hamish is marked off as an anniversary.
- Isobelle is my grand niece and a bonny little thing she is.
- Why do you need a bus when you have a bonny lass to drive you to school today?
- One of the younger men on the boat laughed at me, and called me bonny lass for having done such a thing.
- I didn't really know Laura but I've seen her in the village and she was a bonny girl.
- ‘You've come a long way,’ said Naomi, the casting director's assistant who was bonny and bright.
- We were driving around Speyside the other day looking for bonny purple heather and found that the hillsides were blanketed with the dull cerise of willow-herb.
- These powerful images are a far cry from Scottish artist John Finnie's 1864 idealised Maids of All Work, looking blithe and bonny in crisp cottons.
- It was not an auspicious start for bonny prince Charlie.
- She is a larger than life Earth Mother: bonny, capable, strong and energetic.
Synonyms beautiful, attractive, handsome, pretty, gorgeous, good-looking, nice-looking, well favoured, fetching, prepossessing, ravishing, stunning - 1.1 (of a baby) plump and healthy-looking.
Example sentencesExamples - There are just a few days left to enter your bonny baby into this year's Baby of the Year competition.
- There will be a dog show at 1pm, bonny baby at 2.30 pm, fancy dress at 3pm followed by Best Dressed Lady at 3.30 pm.
- We have events for all generations from bonny baby, kids fancy dress, children's tug-o-war to our most appropriately dressed lady and gentleman.
- The church bells rang out as families with bonny babies filled the church for a baptism service.
- She now holds her bonny baby as if he is the only light in her life.
- 1.2 Sizable; considerable (usually expressing approval)
it's worth a thousand pounds, a bonny sum Example sentencesExamples - Keith believes his Grandpa got less than £5000 for the farm (still, a bonny sum in the early 50s).
Synonyms fairly large, substantial, considerable, respectable, significant, largish, biggish, decent, decent-sized, generous, handsome
nounˈbänēˈbɑni my bonnyScottish, Northern English literary Used as a form of address for one's beloved or baby. Example sentencesExamples - So bring back me bonnie to moi.
- My bonnie lies over the sea.
- My bonnie lies over the ocean.
Origin Late 15th century: perhaps related to Old French bon ‘good’. |