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bunny¹
- /ˈbʌni/ US, UK
- /ˈbʊni/ Northern England
- /ˈbʌne/ Scotland
Rhymes with -ʌni
Where it comes from
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).
noun bunnies · bnuuy · bunnie
- A rabbit, especially a juvenile one. Scary-looking rabbits were hopping around Fort Collins. These weren’t your standard cute, fluffy bunnies; they had horn-like growths protruding from their faces and bodies.
- A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail. ‘Gwen has a job as a bunny because says she's sick of sex.’
- In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
- A menstrual pad. A local chemist remembers: My grandmother made home-made sanitary towels from a type of muslin. They were hand-knitted, washed and re-used. Other women used netting and cotton wool. Home-made towels were known as 'bunnies'.
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Synonym of rabbit (“batsman frequently dismissed by the same bowler”).
Similar: rabbit
adjective bunnier · bunniest · bnuuy · bunnie
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Easy or unchallenging.
Let’s start on the bunny slope.
Similar: nursery
bunny²
- /ˈbʌni/ US, UK
- /ˈbʊni/ Northern England
- /ˈbʌne/ Scotland
Rhymes with -ʌni
Where it 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.
noun bunnies · bunney · bonie
- A swelling from a blow; a bump.
- A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.
bunny³
- /ˈbʌni/ US, UK
- /ˈbʊni/ Northern England
- /ˈbʌne/ Scotland
Rhymes with -ʌni
Where it 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.
noun bunnies
- 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. Friar's Cliff and Highcliffe have always been what the second name suggests: cliffs too high to scale easily and with no convenient bunnies, chines or combes.
- 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.
bunny⁴
- /ˈbʌni/ US, UK
- /ˈbʊni/ Northern England
- /ˈbʌne/ Scotland
Rhymes with -ʌni
noun bunnies
- Bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry. Surfers from Durban grew up on bunnies. You get the curry in the bread with the removed square chunk, used to dunk back in the curry.
bunny⁵
- /ˈbʌni/ US, UK
- /ˈbʊni/ Northern England
- /ˈbʌne/ Scotland
Rhymes with -ʌni
adjective more bunny · bunnier · most bunny · bunniest
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Resembling a bun (small bread roll).
If you would like to make some buns with more of a Chelsea bunlike texture follow the recipe above, but increase the flour to 300g (11oz). This will make them less rich and more 'bunny'.
Similar: bunlike
Bunny⁶
proper noun
- A village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK5829).
Bunny⁷
Where it comes from
From bunny, after the group’s rabbit motif.
proper noun Bunnies
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A fan of the South Korean girl group NewJeans.
Similar: Tokki
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: bunny rabbit, bunny girl, doe, rabbit, deer, cottontail, jackrabbit, hound, monkey, kid, hen, sucker, chick, chicken, pigeon, honey
Translations
Every language
noun young rabbit
| Español | conejo, conejito, gazapo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 토끼 tokki |
| 日本語 | 子兎 kousagi |
| 中文 | 小兔 xiǎotù, 小兔子 xiǎotùzi |
| Português | coelhinho, caçapo |
| Français | lapereau |
| Deutsch | Kaninchen, Hase, Häschen, Häslein, Hoppelhäslein, Karnickel |
| Italiano | coniglietto |
| Ελληνικά | κουνελάκι kouneláki |
| Română | iepuraș |
| Русский | кро́лик królik, крольчо́нок krolʹčónok, за́йчик zájčik |
| العربية | خَرْنَق ḵarnaq |
| עברית | שפנפן shfanfan, שפנפנה shfanfana |
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