Meaning of BONNY
| Pronunciation: | | 'bânee
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| | Definition: | | [adj] very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens" |
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| | Synonyms: | | beautiful, bonnie, comely, fair |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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