bonny, bonnie, comely, fair, sightly
(adjective) very pleasing to the eye; āmy bonny lassā; āthereās a bonny bay beyondā; āa comely faceā; āyoung fair maidensā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bonny (comparative more bonny, superlative most bonny)
(Geordie) Alternative spelling of bonnie
bonny (plural bonnies)
(mining) A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.
Source: Wiktionary
Bon"ny, a. [Spelled bonnie by the Scotch.] Etym: [OE. boni, prob. fr. F. bon, fem. bonne, good, fr. L. bonus good. See Bounty, and cf. Bonus, Boon.]
1. Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful. Till bonny Susan sped across the plain. Gay. Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr. Burns.
2. Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe. Be you blithe and bonny. Shak. Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matiSir W. Scott.
Bon"ny, n. (Mining)
Definition: A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
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