Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a bonny manner; beautifully; finely; pleasantly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Gayly; handsomely.
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- adverb
gaily ;handsomely .
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- adverb in a bonny manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ye'll reca 'Kartaz, o' Mishka's men, he who fought bonnily at Stalgesh.
Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 1983
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"Bonnily, Belle, bonnily I mind ye -- a long-legged, black-maned filly ye were, and the big eyes o 'ye, I began to love ye then ...."
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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The cudgel spun high in air, and catching it with an expertness acquired by long practice on the ine, the boy twirled it a second, shook back his thick hair bonnily, and stepping into the trail, followed Wessner.
Freckles 1904
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And the puir goat, she would be negleekit about a great toun like this; and she could feed bonnily on our lily lea by the burn side, and the hounds wad ken her in a day's time, and never fash her, and
The Black Dwarf 1898
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These were my words, they were a friend's words; bonnily have I paid for them!
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The cudgel spun high in air, and catching it with an expertness acquired by long practice on the line, the boy twirled it a second, shook back his thick hair bonnily, and stepping into the trail, followed Wessner.
Freckles Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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In the _Cotter's Saturday Night_ Burns has drawn a beautiful picture of his parents 'household, the rest that came at the week's end, and the family worship about the "wee bit ingle, blinkin' bonnily. "
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After Philiphaugh one hundred Irish prisoners were shot in cold blood, while a minister of the Covenanting Church stood by, reiterating in savage glee, "The wark goes bonnily on."
Claverhouse Mowbray Morris 1879
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These were my words, they were a friend's words; bonnily have I been paid for them!
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These were my words, they were a friend's words; bonnily have I paid for them!
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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