bunny
Plural: bunnies
Noun
- A familiar term for a rabbit, especially a young one.
- a young waitress in a nightclub whose costume includes the tail and ears of a rabbit
- (usually informal) especially a young rabbit
- A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.
- A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
- In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
- A menstrual pad.
- Synonym of rabbit (“batsman frequently dismissed by the same bowler”).
- A swelling from a blow; a bump.
- A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.
- A culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches.
- 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.
- Any small drain or culvert.
- 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.
- A small pool of water.
- Bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry.
Adj
- Easy or unchallenging.
- Resembling a bun (small bread roll).
Examples
- He hopped quickly through his turns, playing words like a BUNNY on the board.
- Let’s start on the bunny slope.
Origin / Etymology
From bun (“rabbit”) + -y (diminutive suffix). Probably from Scottish Gaelic bun (“bottom, butt, stump, stub”), from Old Irish bun (“the thick end of anything, base, butt, foot”), from Proto-Celtic *bonus, though its origin is uncertain. Compare also English bum. Together with rabbit, bunny has largely displaced its former rhyme cony (see cony for more).
Scrabble Score: 10
bunny: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbunny: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bunny: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 13
bunny: valid Words With Friends Word