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Bonny   /bˈɑni/   Listen
adjective
Bonny  adj.  (Spelled bonnie by the Scotch)  
1.
Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful. "Till bonny Susan sped across the plain." "Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr."
2.
Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe. "Be you blithe and bonny." "Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matin chime ere he quitted his bowl."



noun
Bonny  n.  (Mining) A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.






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"Bonny" Quotes from Famous Books



... true, Miss Crystal, for all that—as sure as the blue sky is above us—Sir Hugh Redmond weds to-day with a bonny bit child from foreign parts that no one set eyes on, and whom he is bringing home as mistress to ...
— Wee Wifie • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... and how did you get back without me hearing the sound of the carriage wheels!" she exclaimed. "Eh dear, eh dear, I meant to be down on the front steps to greet you, Miss Nan. Eh, but you look bonny, and let me examine your hair, dear—I hope they cut the points regular. If they don't, it will break away and ...
— Red Rose and Tiger Lily - or, In a Wider World • L. T. Meade

... been no true knight of Erin, and you would not have been worthy of the wee girl who loves you, the bonny Princess Ailinn, if you had refused to meet it," said the little woman; "but for all that you can never return to the fair hills of Erin. But cheer up, Cuglas, there are mossy ways and forest paths and nestling bowers in fairyland. Lonely they are, I know, in your eyes now," ...
— Irish Fairy Tales • Edmund Leamy

... keep those herbs on, and you'll never feel your scratches. I know a thing or two for all I'm crazy, and you, my own grandson! Dear, dear, I'm glad his Holiness the High Priest adopted you when Pharaoh—Osiris bless his holy name—made an end of his son; you look so bonny. I warrant the real Harmachis could not have killed a lion like that. Give me the common ...
— Cleopatra • H. Rider Haggard

... of anything we say: We speak no treason, man—we say the king Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen Well strook in years, fair, and not jealous. We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot, A cherry lip, A bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue; That the queen's kindred are made gentlefolks. How say you, sir? Can you ...
— Characters of Shakespeare's Plays • William Hazlitt


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