Bon·ny a. [Spelled bonnie by the Scotch.]
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 matin chime ere he quitted his bowl. --Sir W. Scott.
bonnie
adj : very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny
bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"
[syn: bonny, comely, fair]