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adjective

Bonnie adj. See Bonny, a.

Bonny adj. (Spelled bonnie by the Scotch)

Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful. "Till bonny Susan sped across the plain." "Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr."

Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe. "Be you blithe and bonny." "Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matin chime ere he quitted his bowl."

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Etymology of 'Bonnie'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bonnie" Quotes from Famous Books

... The air of "Bonnie Dundee" running in my head to-day, I [wrote] a few verses to it before dinner, taking the key-note from the story of Clavers leaving the Scottish Convention of Estates in 1688-9.[90] I wonder if they are good. Ah! poor Will Erskine![91] thou couldst and wouldst have told me. ...

— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott

... quickly recovered his strength, all the more quickly, probably, from the unwonted care I insisted on bestowing on his ablutions and diet. He became a bonnie boy, and wound himself round our hearts, and very sorry we were when the time came for parting. Perched on his mother's back, he returned to the Black Mountain the day week ...

— The Grateful Indian - And other Stories • W.H.G. Kingston

... not see until the next day, for Penelope was too ill to bear anything more that night, and when Esther went into the sickroom the next day she could hardly recognise her bonnie, smiling sister in the pale, bandaged face on the pillow, so drawn with pain, so dark about the eyes, so wan and changed ...

— The Carroll Girls • Mabel Quiller-Couch

... we aint!" retorted Peke. "We can afford to treat ye like the gentlemen doos! Buy yerself a ribbin to tie up yer bonnie brown 'air!" ...

— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli

... The Bonnie Annie bore a picked crew, for Peter's boat was to him a sort of church, in which he would not, with his will, carry any Jonah fleeing from the will of the Lord of the sea. And that boat's crew did not look the less merrily out of their blue eyes, or carry themselves less manfully in danger, that ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 • Various

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