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. 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