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Bunny
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- 1 Easy or unchallenging.
"Let’s start on the bunny slope."
- 2 Resembling a bun (small bread roll). humorous, rare
"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'."
- 1 A village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK5829).
- 1 A rabbit, especially a juvenile one. childish, informal
"Scary-looking rabbits were hopping around Fort Collins. These weren’t your standard cute, fluffy bunnies; they had horn-like growths protruding from their faces and bodies."
- 2 A swelling from a blow; a bump. UK, dialectal
- 3 A culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches. UK, dialectal
- 4 Bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry. South-Africa
"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."
- 5 (usually informal) especially a young rabbit wordnet
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- 6 A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
"‘Gwen has a job as a bunny because says she's sick of sex.’"
- 7 A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.
- 8 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. UK, dialectal
"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."
- 9 a young waitress in a nightclub whose costume includes the tail and ears of a rabbit wordnet
- 10 In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
- 11 Any small drain or culvert. UK, dialectal
- 12 A menstrual pad. euphemistic, slang
"A local chemist remembers: My grandmother made home-made sanitary towels from a type of muslin. They were hand-knitted, washed and re-used. Other women used netting and cotton wool. Home-made towels were known as 'bunnies'."
- 13 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. UK, dialectal
- 14 Synonym of rabbit (“batsman frequently dismissed by the same bowler”).
- 15 A small pool of water. UK, dialectal
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).
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).
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 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 bun (“small bread roll”) + -y.
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