Bunny Definition

bŭnē
bunnies
noun
bunnies
A rabbit.
Webster's New World
A sexually attractive young woman.
Ski bunny, beach bunny.
Webster's New World
A person of a specific type.
A dumb bunny.
American Heritage
A shot that is uncontested or should be easily made, as in basketball.
American Heritage

(UK dialectal) A culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
adjective
(not comparable) In skiing, easy or unchallenging.
Let’s start on the bunny hill.
Wiktionary

Resembling a bun.

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Other Word Forms of Bunny

Noun

Singular:
bunny
Plural:
bunnies

Origin of Bunny

  • 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.

    From Wiktionary

  • 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.

    From Wiktionary

  • From dialectal bun rabbit (perhaps from Scots tail of a hare buns) –y

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From bun (“small breadroll”) +‎ -y.

    From Wiktionary

  • From bun (“rabbit”) +‎ -y.

    From Wiktionary

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