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語源 1

From Middle English *boni (attested only まれに as bon, boun), probably from Old French bon, feminine bonne (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”). See bounty, and compare bonus, boon.

形容詞

bonny (comparative bonnier または more bonny, superlative bonniest または most bonny)

1. (Tyneside) Alternative spelling of bonnie (“attractive”).
   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matin chime ere he quitted his bowl.

   • 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter VII, in Wuthering Heights, volume (please specify |volume=I または II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:

     ‘A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad,’

参照

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[1]
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• “bonny”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

語源 2

Clipping of bonfire.

名詞

bonny (複数形 bonnies)

1. (Northern Ireland, informal) Alternative spelling of bonnie (“bonfire”).

名詞

bonny (複数形 bonnies)

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