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bunny
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?b?ni/
- Rhymes: -?ni
- Hyphenation: bun?ny
Etymology 1
From bun (“rabbit”) +? -y, though its ultimate origin is unknown. Together with rabbit, bunny has largely displaced its rhyme cony.
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.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
bunny (comparative bunnier, superlative bunniest)
- (skiing) Easy or unchallenging.
- Let’s start on the bunny slope.
Synonyms
- (easy or unchallenging): nursery
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
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
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.
- 1983, Geoffrey Morley, Smuggling in Hampshire and Dorset, 1700-1850 (page 72)
- 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.
- 1983, Geoffrey Morley, Smuggling in Hampshire and Dorset, 1700-1850 (page 72)
- (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 4
Noun
bunny (plural bunnies)
- (South Africa) Bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry.
Etymology 5
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]
Synonyms
- (resembling a bun): bunlike
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bilby
English
Etymology
From Dharug [Term?].
Noun
bilby (plural bilbies)
- Australian desert marsupial (Macrotis lagotis), with distinctive large ears and approximately the size of a rabbit.
Synonyms
- (Macrotis lagotis): dalgite, pinkie, rabbit-eared bandicoot
Derived terms
Translations
References
- bilby on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Macrotis lagotis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Macrotis lagotis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
- Libby
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