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bon·ny

Audio Help [bon-ee] Pronunciation Key adjective, -ni·er, -ni·est, adverb, noun

–adjective

1.	Chiefly Scot. pleasing to the eye; handsome; pretty.

British Dialect.

a.	(of people) healthy, sweet, and lively.

b.	(of places) placid; tranquil.

c.	pleasing; agreeable; good.

–adverb

3.	British Dialect. pleasingly; agreeably; very well.

–noun

4.	Scot. and North England Archaic. a pretty girl or young woman.

Also, bonnie.

[Origin: 1425–75; late ME (Scots) bonie, perh. < OF bon good + -ie -y¹, perh. by analogy with jolie jolly

]

—Related forms

bon·ni·ly, adverb

bon·ni·ness, noun

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Bon·nie

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–noun

a female given name: from the Latin word meaning “good.”

Also, Bonny.

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bon·ny also bon·nie Audio Help (bŏn'ē) Pronunciation Key
adj. bon·ni·er, bon·ni·est Scots

Physically attractive or appealing; pretty.
Excellent.

[Probably ultimately from French bon, good, from Latin bonus; see deu-² in Indo-European roots.]

bon'ni·ly adv., bon'ni·ness n.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
bonny

1548, of unknown origin, apparently connected in some way with O.Fr. bon, bone "good."

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bonny
adjective
very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Bonny

Bon"nie\, a. [Scot.] See Bonny, a.

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Bonny

Bon"ny\, a. [Spelled bonnie by the Scotch.] [OE. boni, prob. fr. F. bon, fem. bonne, good, fr. L. bonus good. See Bounty, and cf. Bonus, Boon.]

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

Till bonny Susan sped across the plain. --Gay.

Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr. --Burns.

2. Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe.

Be you blithe and bonny. --Shak.

Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the mati?chime ere he quitted his bowl. --Sir W. Scott.

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