Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
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. · A menstrual pad.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryEasy or unchallenging.
Etymology tree Scottish Gaelic bunder.? Scots bunbor.? English bun Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English 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).
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