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Webster 1913 Edition
Bunny
Bun′ny
,Noun.
(Mining)
A great collection of ore without any vein coming into it or going out from it.
Bun′ny
,Noun.
A pet name for a rabbit or a squirrel.
Definition 2024
bunny
bunny
English
Noun
bunny (plural bunnies)
- (Britain dialectal) A culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches.
- (Britain dialectal) 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.
- (Britain dialectal) Any small drain or culvert.
- (Britain dialectal) 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.
- (Britain dialectal) A small pool of water.
Etymology 2
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.
Alternative forms
- bunney, bonie
Noun
bunny (plural bunnies)
- (Britain dialectal) A swelling from a blow; a bump.
- (mining) A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.
Etymology 3
Noun
bunny (plural bunnies)
- A rabbit, especially a juvenile.
- A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
- (sports) In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
- (South Africa) Bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry.
- 2008, Steve Pike, Surfing South Africa (page 258)
- 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.
- 2008, Steve Pike, Surfing South Africa (page 258)
Derived terms
Terms derived from bunny
Translations
young rabbit
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women in a costume of rabbit ears and tail
Adjective
bunny (comparative bunnier, superlative bunniest)
- (skiing) Easy or unchallenging.
- Let’s start on the bunny slope.
- 2014, Carey Heywood, Sawyer Says: A Companion Novel to Him and Her (ISBN 0991436229):
- We are on the bunniest of bunny hills. I've fallen no fewer than six times and I love every minute of it.
Synonyms
- (easy or unchallenging): nursery
Etymology 4
From bun (“small bread roll”) + -y.
Adjective
bunny (comparative more bunny or bunnier, superlative most bunny or bunniest)
- (rare, humorous) Resembling a bun (small bread roll). [since the 1960s, but always rare]
- 2012, Sue Simkins, Cooking With Mrs Simkins, ISBN 184803475X:
- 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'.
- 2014, Bruce Montague, Wedding Bells and Chimney Sweeps, ISBN 1784180424:
- Before the interregnum, the cakes made for weddings had been pathetic offerings, consisting mainly of piles of biscuits and scones. When you read the list of ingredients -- sugar, eggs, milk, flour, currents, and spices -- these must have looked and tasted a lot like hot cross buns, but without being hot, without the cross, and without being particularly bunny.
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Synonyms
- (resembling a bun): bunlike