Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A handsome girl; a fair maid; a bonny lass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A handsome girl.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
handsome girl .
Etymologies
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French bonne et belle, good and beautiful.
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Examples
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"Who shall save me from love of a lovely gazelle, * Brighter browed than the sunshine, my bonnibel!
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Go! leave us, sweet bonnibel! we must brave the bear alone! "
The Last of the Barons — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Go! leave us, sweet bonnibel! we must brave the bear alone! "
The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
lea commented on the word bonnibel
A handsome girl. French expression bonne et belle, good and beautiful. Compare to bellibone.
February 28, 2009
qms commented on the word bonnibel
The playful bright sound is endearing.
It falls rather Scots on the hearing
Yet French, we can tell,
Cast this bonnibel
To peal pledges of love in its clear ring.
March 3, 2014
ruzuzu commented on the word bonnibel
Makes me think of strawberry lip gloss.
March 3, 2014