bunny
Meanings
noun
- A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.
- A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
- In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
- A menstrual pad.
- Synonym of rabbit (“batsman frequently dismissed by the same bowler”).
adj
- Easy or unchallenging.
noun
- A swelling from a blow; a bump.
- A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.
noun
- 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.
- 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.
noun
- Bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry.
adj
- Resembling a bun (small bread roll).
name
- A village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK5829).
name
- A fan of the South Korean girl group NewJeans.
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Etymology
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).
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