Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A rabbit, especially a young one.
  • noun A person of a specific type.
  • noun Sports A shot that is uncontested or should be easily made, as in basketball.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as bonny.
  • noun A pet name for a rabbit.
  • noun A gully formed by water making its way over the edge of a cliff.
  • noun A swelling from a blow; a bump.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A pet name for a rabbit or a squirrel.
  • noun (Mining) A great collection of ore without any vein coming into it or going out from it.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Resembling a bun
  • noun A rabbit, especially a juvenile.
  • noun A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
  • noun sports In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
  • noun South Africa bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry
  • adjective not comparable In skiing, easy or unchallenging.
  • noun A swelling from a blow; a bump.
  • noun mining A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.
  • noun A culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches.
  • noun 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.
  • noun Any small drain or culvert.
  • noun 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.
  • noun A small pool of water.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a young waitress in a nightclub whose costume includes the tail and ears of a rabbit
  • noun (usually informal) especially a young rabbit

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From dialectal bun, rabbit (perhaps from Scots, tail of a hare; see buns) + –y.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From bun (“small breadroll”) +‎ -y.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From bun (“rabbit”) +‎ -y.

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From Middle English bony, boni ("swelling, tumor"), from Old French bugne, buigne ("swelling, lump"), from Old Frankish *bungjo (“swelling, bump”), from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“lump, clump, heap, crowd”). More at bunion, bunch.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English bune ("hollow stalk or stem, drinking straw"), from Old English bune ("cup, beaker, drinking vessel; reed, cane"), of unknown origin. Related to English bun, boon ("the stalk of flax or hemp less the fibre"), Scots bune, boon, been, see bun, boon. Compare also bunweed.

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    August 3, 2008

  • Weirdnet!

    August 4, 2008

  • We know what WeirdNet's been reading :-(

    August 4, 2008

  • Just for the articles, I'm sure.

    August 4, 2008

  • See arugula.

    August 5, 2008

  • What a perv!

    August 5, 2008

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    Awesome bunny! (copied from oroboros)

    I always thought the only meaning for this was 'rabbit'. It's the only one I ever use for sure!

    July 26, 2009