What is "bonnie"

Bonny \Bon"ny\, a. [Spelled bonnie by the Scotch.] [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 matin chime ere he quitted his bowl.
   --Sir W. Scott.

a. 1 gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe. 2 (context Geordie English) beautiful; pretty; attractive.

adj. very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens" [syn: bonny, comely, fair]

Bonnie, Bonny or Bonne is a given name commonly used for females. It is rarely used as a male given name and is sometimes used as a descriptive reference. It comes from the Scottish word "bonnie" meaning "pretty, attractive", which was itself derived from Middle French bonne "good" as a way to describe a fair, good and beautiful girl. That is in turn derived from the Latin word "bonus" meaning good. The name can also be used as a pet form of Bonita. Bonnie is often used as a nickname or a form of endearment towards a loved one.

Bonnie is a given name, predominantly but not always feminine.

Bonnie may also refer to:

Bonnie (born about 1978) is a female orangutan living at the National Zoo in Washington D.C.

She began spontaneously whistling, mimicking an animal caretaker making the sound. The importance is that whistling is a sound that is in a human’s—but not an orangutan’s—repertoire. While some "lower primates" have been shown to make non-standard sounds for their species, it has always been the result of intense training, whereas Bonnie just picked up the new sound mechanism. Another interesting aspect is that she seems to whistle just because she likes the sound as opposed to producing this behavior in response to a potential food reward. Bonnie's whistling was documented in Primates by Dr. Serge Wich et al.

Bonnie (originally titled The Bonnie Hunt Show) is an American CBS television comedy that aired from 1995 to 1996. Bonnie Hunt played Bonnie Kelly, a television reporter who moves from Wisconsin to take a job in Chicago. There she encounters an eclectic group of coworkers. Each episode had parts where Bonnie would interview real people, asking ridiculous questions. These scenes were improvised. The show bore similarities to another series produced by David Letterman, Welcome to New York.