About The Word Bonny
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Bonny
Bonny Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Bonny?
[adj] very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Bonny: beautiful | bonnie | comely | fair Related Terms | Find terms related to Bonny: advantageous | agreeable | amply endowed | attractive | auspicious | beauteous | beautiful | becoming | beneficial | benevolent | bon | boulevardier | braw | bueno | built | built for comfort | buxom | callipygian | cogent | comely | commendable | curvaceous | curvy | elegant | estimable | excellent | expedient | fair | famous | favorable | fine | goddess-like | good | good-looking | goodly | grand | handsome | healthy | helpful | high liver | Junoesque | kind | laudable | likely | lovely | lovely to behold | man-about-town | nice | noble | personable | pleasant | pleasing | pneumatic | presentable | pretty | profitable | pulchritudinous | regal | royal | shapely | sightly | skillful | slender | sound | splendid | sport | stacked | statuesque | useful | valid | very good | virtuous | well-built | well-favored | well-formed | well-made | well-proportioned | well-shaped | well-stacked See Also | Bonny In Webster's Dictionary \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.
\Bon"ny\, n. (Mining) A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein. |
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