bunny

Meanings

Noun

• A rabbit, especially a juvenile.
• A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
• In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
• A swelling from a blow; a bump.
• A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.
• A culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches.
• 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.
• Any small drain or culvert.
• 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.
• A small pool of water.
• Bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry.

Adjective

• Easy or unchallenging.
• Resembling a bun .

Related

Similar words

• nursery
• bunlike

Origin

• From bun + -y, though its ultimate origin is unknown. Together with rabbit, bunny has largely displaced its rhyme cony.
• From Middle English bony, boni, from Old French bugne, buigne, from Old Frankish *bungjo, from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô. More at bunion, bunch.
• From Middle English bune, from Old English bune, of unknown origin. Related to English bun, boon, Scots bune, boon, been, see bun, boon. Compare also bunweed.
• From bun + -y.