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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.
2.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]

bon·ni·ly, adverb
bon·ni·ness, noun
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Bon·nie    Audio Help   [bon-ee] Pronunciation Key
–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
  1. Physically attractive or appealing; pretty.
  2. 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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bonny 
1548, of unknown origin, apparently connected in some way with O.Fr. bon, bone "good."

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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adjective
very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens" 

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Bonny

Bon"nie\, a. [Scot.] See Bonny, a.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

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