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bnuuy

/b(ə)ˈnuː.i/

bnuuy is the deliberate misspelling of bunny.

Meaning of bunny

Noun (1)

bunny (plural bunnies)

  1. (childish, informal) A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.
    • Scary-looking rabbits were hopping around Fort Collins. These weren’t your standard cute, fluffy bunnies; they had horn-like growths protruding from their faces and bodies.2025 August 14, Angela Haupt, “What to Know About the Horned ‘Zombie’ Rabbits Hopping Around Colorado”, in TIME, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2025
  2. A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
    • ‘Gwen has a job as a bunny because says she's sick of sex.’1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, Flamingo 1993 edition, page 578
  3. In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
  4. (dated, euphemistic, slang) A menstrual pad.
    • A local chemist remembers: My grandmother made home-made sanitary towels from a type of muslin. They were hand-knitted, washed and re-used. Other women used netting and cotton wool. Home-made towels were known as 'bunnies'.1992, Maureen Sutton, We Didn't Know Aught, page 17
  5. Synonym of rabbit (“batsman frequently dismissed by the same bowler”).
    Synonyms:
    rabbit

Noun (2)

bunny (plural bunnies)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A swelling from a blow; a bump.

See all 17 meanings of bunny

Forms of bnuuy

pluralbnuuies
pluralbnuuys

Origin of bnuuy

Popularized during mid-2020. Know Your Meme tracks the usage of the term to an image posted to Reddit on May 29, 2020.

Words that rhyme with bnuuy

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Questions about bnuuy

What is bnuuy the deliberate misspelling of?
Bnuuy is the deliberate misspelling of bunny.
How do you pronounce bnuuy?
Bnuuy is pronounced /b(ə)ˈnuː.i/.

Words near bnuuy in the dictionary

  1. BNSL
  2. BNSS
  3. Bnss.
  4. BNST
  5. bnuuies
  6. bnuuy
  7. bnuuys
  8. BNWO
  9. BNWT
  10. bo
  11. bo bian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bnuuy (page history and authors); bunny (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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