English

Proper noun

Bonnie

1. A female given name.
   • 1936 Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind:

     Rhett leaning over the child had said: 'Her eyes are going to be pea-green.'

     'Indeed they are not,' cried Melanie indignantly, forgetting that Scarlett's eyes were almost that shade. 'They are going to be blue, like Mr O'Hara's eyes, as blue as - as blue as the bonnie blue flag.'

     'Bonnie Blue Butler,' laughed Rhett, taking the child from her and peering more closely into the small eyes. And Bonnie she became until even her parents did not recall that she had been named for two queens.

Anagrams

• be in on

English

Alternative forms

• bonny
• bonie (obsolete)

Adjective

bonnie ‎(comparative more bonnie, superlative most bonnie)

1. Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe.
   • Shakespeare

     Be you blithe and bonny.

   • Sir Walter Scott

     Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matin chime ere he quitted his bowl.

2. (Geordie) Beautiful; pretty; attractive.

Translations

References

• bonnie in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• be in on

Scots

Alternative forms

• bonny

Adjective

bonnie ‎(comparative mair bonnie, superlative maist bonnie)

1. handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful
   • Gay

     Till bonny Susan sped across the plain.

   • Robert Burns

     Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr.

References

• Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group / Word Lists / SCOTLAND C18/2 - A SELECTION FROM BURNS' VOCABULARY