bunny.
A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.
Meaning & usage
A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.
A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
A menstrual pad.
Synonym of rabbit (“batsman frequently dismissed by the same bowler”).
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Scottish Gaelic bunder.? Scots bunbor.? English bun Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English bunny From bun (“rabbit”) + -y (diminutive suffix). Probably from Scottish Gaelic bun (“bottom, butt, stump, stub”), from Old Irish bun (“the thick end of anything, base, butt, foot”), from Proto-Celtic *bonus, though its origin is uncertain. Compare also English bum. Together with rabbit, bunny has largely displaced its former rhyme cony (see cony for more).
Easy or unchallenging.
Let’s start on the bunny slope.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Scottish Gaelic bunder.? Scots bunbor.? English bun Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English bunny From bun (“rabbit”) + -y (diminutive suffix). Probably from Scottish Gaelic bun (“bottom, butt, stump, stub”), from Old Irish bun (“the thick end of anything, base, butt, foot”), from Proto-Celtic *bonus, though its origin is uncertain. Compare also English bum. Together with rabbit, bunny has largely displaced its former rhyme cony (see cony for more).
A swelling from a blow; a bump.
A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English bony, boni (“swelling, tumor”), from Old French bugne, buigne (“swelling, lump”), from Old Frankish *bungjo (“swelling, bump”), from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“lump, clump, heap, crowd”). More at bunion, bunch.
A culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches.
A chine or gully formed by water running over the edge of a cliff; a wooded glen or small ravine opening through the cliff line to the sea.
Any small drain or culvert.
A brick arch or wooden bridge, covered with earth across a drawn or carriage in a water-meadow, just wide enough to allow a hay-wagon to pass over.
A small pool of water.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English bune (“hollow stalk or stem, drinking straw”), from Old English bune (“cup, beaker, drinking vessel; reed, cane”), of unknown origin. Related to English bun, boon (“the stalk of flax or hemp less the fibre”), Scots bune, boon, been, see bun, boon. Compare also bunweed.
Bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry.
Resembling a bun (small bread roll).
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Scottish Gaelic bunder.? Scots bunbor.? English bun Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English bunny From bun (“small bread roll”) + -y.
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