Bunny

/ˈbʌni/ · noun

Meaning

(informal or childish) A rabbit, especially a juvenile one..

Definitions by Sense

1. (informal or childish) A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.
2. A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
3. (sports) In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
4. (slang, euphemistic, dated) A menstrual pad.
5. (cricket) Synonym of rabbit (“batsman frequently dismissed by the same bowler”).
6. (skiing) Easy or unchallenging.
7. (UK dialectal) A swelling from a blow; a bump.
8. (mining) A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.

Example Sentences

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.

‘Gwen has a job as a bunny because says she's sick of sex.’

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'.

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)!

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.

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.

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.

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Antonyms for bunny

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Word Forms

• bunnies
• bnuuy
• bunnie
• bunnier
• bunniest
• bunney
• bonie
• more bunny
• most bunny

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