BONNY

bonny. Bonny, a. handsome, beautiful, fine, merry, gay

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Bon″ny (–ny̆), a. [Spelled bonnie by the Scotch.] [[OE. boni, prob. fr. F. bon, fem. bonne, good, fr. L. bonus good. See Bounty, and cf. Bonus, Boon.]] 1. 1. Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful.
Till bonny Susan sped across the plain. Gay. Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr. Burns. 2. 2. Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe.
Be you blithe and bonny. Shak. Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matin chime ere he quitted his bowl. Sir W. Scott.