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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bonny
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And did you ever see such a bonny piece?
▪ I must say, love, you're looking very bonny!
▪ Mrs Addison was a bonny woman with a mass of dark hair which she wore in a coil.
▪ Or as a bonny nine-year-old, celebrating her first Christmas at Watton ... with only five years of life left to her.
▪ Photographs indicate that she was a bonny young lass likely to stir the emotions of any number of local young men.
▪ The arrival of this bonny bawling boy had caused considerable consternation.
▪ The cat wasn't the bonny creature it had been when Rose had first given it to him.
▪ Their love grew stronger by the day and then Maisie was born, a healthy, bonny baby.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bonny

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

Bonny

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bonny

1540s, of unknown origin, apparently from Old French bon, bone "good" (see bon).

Wiktionary
bonny

Etymology 1 a. (context Geordie English) (alternative spelling of bonnie English) Etymology 2

n. (context mining English) A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.

WordNet
bonny

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

  2. [also: bonniest, bonnier]

Wikipedia
Bonny (instrumental)

"Bonny" is an instrumental performed by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, based on the traditional Scottish ballad The Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond. Originally recorded by the band in 1976 as "Fling Thing", it was released on the B-side of the " Jailbreak" single, and more recently, on Backtracks.

After the death of the band's original lead singer, Bon Scott, it continued to be featured in the band's live set, arguably as a tribute to him. However, the song is only played at every gig held in Glasgow, Scotland, such as, for example, the show on June 30, 2009 during the band's Black Ice World Tour. A recorded live version of the track with its alternative title of "Bonny" was featured on AC/DC's live album, Live: 2 CD Collector's Edition, recorded at the only Scottish date of the Razors Edge World Tour. Those who listen carefully can hear the fans sing the words. Only Angus Young plays the riff to this song.

Lyrics

Oh, ye'll tak the high road, and I'll tak the low road, And I'll be in Scotland afore ye; But me and my true love will never meet again On the bonnie, bonnie banks o' Loch Lomond

Usage examples of "bonny".

The woman is tanned and double-chinned, large enough that even Bonny with her Bay Area tastes tags her big.

Image is everything, sure, but Bonny suddenly has the spiteful hope that Mona is bucktoothed and fish-eyed, eczemaed and jug-eared, when you peel back her digital veneer.

Katelyn could reject her just as easy as Bonny could have pulled her hand away from the other woman.

Neither choice is the kewlest, and that might disappoint Terrance, but Bonny thinks incremental is the way to go.

Katelyn looks at Bonny, tears making her mascaraed lashes glow rainbow colors.

Orinda so covered with bougainvillea that Bonny feels claustrophobic just looking at it.

And at a music store where Bonny downloads Gershwin remixes into her palmphone, Katelyn downloads ragtime standards, Scott Joplin, Irving Berlin.

A waitress whose fingers each luminesce a different color takes their orders: Bonny a mojito, Katelyn white wine.

Clinking their glasses, their fingers brush, and Bonny has to look away.

Katelyn stumbles as she climbs into the water taxi, and Bonny, already in, grabbing her arm to steady her, is almost pulled over.

And a black beret that complements cheekbones that Bonny does not remember having seen before.

When they sit on an empty space, Bonny notes that her arm is flashing through sites the way it did before at Dr.

A swimming person, presumably gilled, screening something diffuse that makes the water green where it had been dark and that gives enough light that Bonny can see the drinks are in highboys and each colored red or blue.

Wearing a silver wig but topless and muscular and sporting a Vandyke beard so bright Bonny sees purple-afterimage trails when he shakes his head.

Smiling, she thrusts it so hard at Bonny that it clicks open a browser window in her left arm.