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bunny

Syllables: bun·ny/ˈbʌni/

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Northern England/ˈbʊni/

bunny noun: a rabbit, especially a juvenile one.

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
    • Frustratingly for us, it appeared to be much less of a hassle to purchase an expensive fountain pen, than to find, let alone buy, the smallest bottle of deodorant or a packet of Bunnies (as sanitary towels were nicknamed)!2007, E. J. McNair, A British Army Nurse in the Korean War, page 177
  5. Synonym of rabbit (“batsman frequently dismissed by the same bowler”).
    Synonyms:
    rabbit

Adjective (1)

bunny (comparative bunnier, superlative bunniest)

  1. Easy or unchallenging.
    • Let’s start on the bunny slope.
    • We are on the bunniest of bunny hills. I've fallen no fewer than six times and I love every minute of it.2014, Carey Heywood, Sawyer Says: A Companion Novel to Him and Her, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    nursery

Noun (2)

bunny (plural bunnies)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A swelling from a blow; a bump.
  2. A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.

Noun (3)

bunny (plural bunnies)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches.
  2. (UK, dialectal) 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.
    • Friar's Cliff and Highcliffe have always been what the second name suggests: cliffs too high to scale easily and with no convenient bunnies, chines or combes.1983, Geoffrey Morley, Smuggling in Hampshire and Dorset, 1700-1850, page 72
  3. (UK, dialectal) Any small drain or culvert.
  4. (UK, dialectal) 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.
  5. (UK, dialectal) A small pool of water.

Noun (4)

bunny (plural bunnies)

  1. (South Africa) Bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry.
    • Surfers from Durban grew up on bunnies. You get the curry in the bread with the removed square chunk, used to dunk back in the curry.2008, Steve Pike, Surfing South Africa, page 258

Adjective (2)

bunny (comparative more bunny or bunnier, superlative most bunny or bunniest)

  1. (humorous, rare) Resembling a bun (small bread roll).
    • If you would like to make some buns with more of a Chelsea bunlike texture follow the recipe above, but increase the flour to 300g (11oz). This will make them less rich and more 'bunny'.2012, Sue Simkins, Cooking With Mrs Simkins, →ISBN
    • Before the interregnum, the cakes made for weddings had been pathetic offerings, consisting mainly of piles of biscuits and scones. When you read the list of ingredients -- sugar, eggs, milk, flour, currents, and spices -- these must have looked and tasted a lot like hot cross buns, but without...2014, Bruce Montague, Wedding Bells and Chimney Sweeps, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    bunlike

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Bunny

Bunny

  1. A village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK5829).

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Bunny

Bunny (plural Bunnies)

  1. (slang) A fan of the South Korean girl group NewJeans.
    Synonyms:
    Tokki

bunny meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam

bunny in Tamil

முயல் குட்டி

bunny in Bengali

শশ

bunny in Telugu

బన్నీ

bunny in Malayalam

ബണ്ണി
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bunny in Punjabi
ਬੰਨੀ
bunny in Nepali
बन्नी
bunny in Arabic
خَرْنَق ḵarnaq

Examples of bunny in a sentence

  • A marauding stoat entered the rabbit warren and killed fifteen bunnies.
  • The first baseman misplays the bunny hop, so all runners are safe.
  • I only realized I had been given the bunny ears after the pictures were developed.

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Synonyms of bunny

Forms of bunny

Noun
pluralbunnies
alternative deliberate misspellingbnuuy
alternative formbunney
alternative formbonie
alternative form (rare)bunnie
Adjective
comparativebunnier
superlativebunniest
comparativemore bunny
superlativemost bunny
Proper noun
pluralBunnies

Plural of bunny: bunnies

Origin of bunny

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).

From Middle English bony, boni (“swelling, tumor”), from Old French bugne, buigne (“swelling, lump”), from Old Frankish *bungjo (“swelling, bump”), from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“lump, clump, heap, crowd”). More at bunion, bunch.

From Middle English bune (“hollow stalk or stem, drinking straw”), from Old English bune (“cup, beaker, drinking vessel; reed, cane”), of unknown origin. Related to English bun, boon (“the stalk of flax or hemp less the fibre”), Scots bune, boon, been, see bun, boon. Compare also bunweed.

Words formed from bunny

Phrases with bunny

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Words that rhyme with bunny

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Questions about bunny

What does bunny mean?
Bunny means a rabbit, especially a juvenile one.
What is bunny in Tamil?
Bunny in Tamil is முயல் குட்டி. See Bunny meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bunny?
Bunny can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bunny?
Bunny is pronounced /ˈbʌni/ (UK).
What is the plural of bunny?
The plural of bunny is bunnies.

Words near bunny in the dictionary

  1. Bunnik
  2. bunning
  3. bunnings
  4. bunnock
  5. bunns
  6. bunny
  7. bunny boiler
  8. bunny boilers
  9. bunny boot
  10. bunny boots
  11. bunny buster

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bunny (page history and authors); Bunny (page history and authors); bunny (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bunny (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bunny (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bunny (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bunny (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bunny (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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