Define:Bonnie

Relatit: Bonnie

English

Alternative forms

• bonny

Etymology

Middle Inglis

boni

, probably from Auld French

bon

, feminine

, from Laitin

. See

bounty

, and compare

bonus

,

boon

.

Adjective

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.

Translations

Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe

Beautiful; pretty; attractive

• Russian: красивый (krasivyj), милый (milyj)

References

• Template:R:1913

Anagrams

• be in on

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Scots

Alternative forms

• bonny

Adjective

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.

References

• Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group / Word Lists / SCOTLAND C18/2 - A SELECTION FROM BURNS' VOCABULARY