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bonnily

bonnily adverb: attractively; in a pleasant or pretty manner.

Adverb

bonnily (comparative more bonnily, superlative most bonnily)

  1. (Scotland) attractively; in a pleasant or pretty manner
    • Fareweel, my rhyme-compoſing billie! / Your native ſoil was right ill-willie; / But may ye flouriſh like a lily, / Now bonilie! / I'll toaſt ye in my hindmoſt gillie, / Tho' owre the Sea!1786 July 31, Robert Burns, “On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West Indies”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire: Printed by John Wilson, →OCLC; reprinted Kilmarnock...

Forms of bonnily

comparativemore bonnily
superlativemost bonnily

Origin of bonnily

From bonny + -ly.

Questions about bonnily

What does bonnily mean?
Bonnily means attractively; in a pleasant or pretty manner.
What part of speech is bonnily?
Bonnily is an adverb.

Words near bonnily in the dictionary

  1. bonnier
  2. bonnies
  3. bonniest
  4. Bonnigson
  5. Bonnigsons
  6. bonnily
  7. Bonnin
  8. bonniness
  9. Bonnington
  10. Bonnins
  11. bonny

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