Bonny \Bon"ny\, 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.
Till bonny Susan sped across the plain. --Gay.
Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr. --Burns.
2. Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe.
Be you blithe and bonny. --Shak.
Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the
mati?chime ere he quitted his bowl. --Sir W.
Scott.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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