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bon·ny

also bon·nie (bŏn′ē)

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- in Indo-European roots.]

bon′ni·ly adv.

bon′ni·ness n.

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bonny

(ˈbɒnɪ)

adj, -nier or -niest

1. dialect Scot and Northern English beautiful or handsome: a bonny lass.

2. merry or lively: a bonny family.

3. good or fine: a bonny house.

4. (esp of babies) plump

5. dialect Scot and Northern English considerable; to be reckoned with: cost a bonny penny.

adv

informal agreeably or well: to speak bonny.

[C15: of uncertain origin; perhaps from Old French bon good, from Latin bonus]

ˈbonnily adv

Bonny

(ˈbɒnɪ)

(Placename) Bight of Bonny a wide bay at the E end of the Gulf of Guinea off the coasts of Nigeria and Cameroon. Former name (until 1975): Bight of Biafra

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bon•ny

(ˈbɒn i)

adj. -ni•er, -ni•est. Chiefly Brit.

1. attractive; handsome; pretty.

2. pleasing; agreeable.

[1425–75; late Middle English (Scots) bonie]

bon′ni•ly, adv.

bon′ni•ness, n.

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Adj.

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

bonnie, sightly, comely, fair

beautiful - delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration; "a beautiful child"; "beautiful country"; "a beautiful painting"; "a beautiful theory"; "a beautiful party"

bonny

adjective (Scot. & Northern English dialect) beautiful, pretty, fair, sweet, appealing, attractive, lovely, charming, handsome, good-looking, gorgeous, radiant, alluring, comely She was a bonny highland lassie.

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bonny

adjective

1. Scots. Having qualities that delight the eye:

attractive, beauteous, beautiful, comely, fair, good-looking, gorgeous, handsome, lovely, pretty, pulchritudinous, ravishing, sightly, stunning.

Idiom: easy on the eyes.

2. Scots. Having pleasant desirable qualities:

good, nice.

Scots: braw.

Translations

bonny

[ˈbɒnɪ] ADJ (bonnier (compar) (bonniest (superl))) (esp Scot) (= pretty) [child] → hermoso, lindo (esp LAm); [dress] → bonito, lindo (esp LAm)

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bonny

[ˈbɒni] adj (Scottish) → joli(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bonny

[ˈbɒnɪ] adj (esp Scot) → bello/a, carino/a

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May I call it--let me see--Bonny would do--may I call it Bonny while I'm here?

Yes, I shall call it Bonny. I named that cherry-tree outside my bedroom window this morning.

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The sturdy hind now attends the levee of his fellow-labourer the ox; the cunning artificer, the diligent mechanic, spring from their hard mattress; and now the bonny housemaid begins to repair the disordered drum-room, while the riotous authors of that disorder, in broken interrupted slumbers, tumble and toss, as if the hardness of down disquieted their repose.

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Unless there's naebody speaks English in that town, I have a bonny tale for them.

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Not so much as one farthing would I take from thee, for I love a fair Saxon face like thine right well-- more especially when it cometh from Locksley Town, and most especially when the man that owneth it is to marry a bonny lass on Thursday next.

Three pennyworths of meat I sell to a fat friar or priest for sixpence, for I want not their custom; stout aldermen I charge threepence, for it doth not matter to me whether they buy or not; to buxom dames I sell three pennyworths of meat for one penny for I like their custom well; but to the bonny lass that hath a liking for a good tight butcher I charge nought but one fair kiss, for I like her custom the best of all."

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"It's joost the bonny young leddy--Miss Blanche hersel'."

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Once a week the German daily of the highest class lightens up its heavy columns--that is, it thinks it lightens them up--with a profound, an abysmal, book criticism; a criticism which carries you down, down, down into the scientific bowels of the subject--for the German critic is nothing if not scientific--and when you come up at last and scent the fresh air and see the bonny daylight once more, you resolve without a dissenting voice that a book criticism is a mistaken way to lighten up a German daily.

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Earnshaw, the old master, came down-stairs, dressed for a journey; and, after he had told Joseph what was to be done during the day, he turned to Hindley, and Cathy, and me - for I sat eating my porridge with them - and he said, speaking to his son, 'Now, my bonny man, I'm going to Liverpool to-day, what shall I bring you?

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Kennedy's countenance strikingly recalled that of Herbert Glendinning, as Sir Walter Scott has depicted it in "The Monastery"; his stature was above six feet; full of grace and easy movement, he yet seemed gifted with herculean strength; a face embrowned by the sun; eyes keen and black; a natural air of daring courage; in fine, something sound, solid, and reliable in his entire person, spoke, at first glance, in favor of the bonny Scot.

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