bunny
/ˈbʌni/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.88 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
adj
Easy or unchallenging.
noun
A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "‘Gwen has a job as a bunny because says she's sick of sex.’"
- "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'."
- "Frustratingly for us, it appeared to be much less of a hassle to purchase an expensive fountain pen, than to find, let alone buy, the smallest bottle of deodorant or a packet of Bunnies (as sanitary towels were nicknamed)!"
- "Let’s start on the bunny slope."
- "We are on the bunniest of bunny hills. I've fallen no fewer than six times and I love every minute of it."
Etymology
Etymology tree Scottish Gaelic bunder.? Scots bunbor.? English bun Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English bunny 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).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbʌni/
- British English: /ˈbʌni/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Music.
Inflected Forms
bunnies (plural)
bnuuy (alternative, deliberate)
bunnie (alternative, rare)
bunnier (comparative)
bunniest (superlative)
bunney (alternative)
bonie (alternative)
more bunny (comparative)
most bunny (superlative)