bonny

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   very pleasing to the eye

   My bonny lass.

2. 2
   adj

   Alternative spelling of bonnie (“attractive”).

   “[…]report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the mattin chime ere he quitted his bowl[…]”.

3. 3
   noun

   Alternative spelling of bonnie (“bonfire”).

From Middle English *boni (attested only rarely as bon, boun), probably from Old French bon, feminine bonne (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”). See bounty, and compare bonus, boon.

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