Define:Bonnie

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Middle Inglis

boni

, probably from Auld French

bon

, feminine

, from Laitin

. See

bounty

, and compare

bonus

,

boon

.

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Bonnie (comparative maist Bonnie, superlative maist Bonnie)

  1. Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe.
    • Shakespeare
      Be you blithe and bonny.
    • Sir Walter Scott
      Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matichime ere he quitted his bowl.
  2. Template:Geordie Beautiful; pretty; attractive.

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Bonnie (comparative mair Bonnie, superlative maist Bonnie)

  1. handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful
    • Gay
      Till bonny Susan sped across the plain.
    • Robert Burns
      Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr.

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