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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. very pleasing to the eye;
- Example: "my bonny lass"
- Example: "there's a bonny bay beyond"
- Example: "a comely face"
- Example: "young fair maidens"
[syn: bonny, bonnie, comely, fair, sightly]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bonnie \Bon"nie\ (b[o^]n"n[y^]), a. [Scot.]
   See Bonny, a.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bonny \Bon"ny\ (-n[y^]), 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. Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and
      graceful.
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            Till bonny Susan sped across the plain. --Gay.
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            Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr.     --Burns.
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   2. Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe.
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            Be you blithe and bonny.              --Shak.
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            Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the
            matin chime ere he quitted his bowl.  --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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U.S. Gazetteer (1990):

Bonnie, IL (village, FIPS 7263)
  Location: 38.20146 N, 88.90746 W
  Population (1990): 411 (183 housing units)
  Area: 3.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 62816