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Added 9 October 2026

bunny

/ˈbʌni/ noun

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about bunny at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.
A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.

adjective

Easy or unchallenging.
Let’s start on the bunny slope.

noun

A swelling from a blow; a bump.
A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.

noun

A culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches.
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.
Any small drain or culvert.

Origin

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).

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