bunny
Pluralbunnies
Pluralbunnies
- 1A rabbit, especially a baby rabbit.
Look, there's a bunny hopping across the yard!
The children fed carrots to the bunnies at the petting zoo.
UsageIt makes a rabbit sound cute. For a neutral word, use rabbit.
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- 2Easy to ski on, used about a gentle slope or hill.
We spent the whole first morning on the bunny slope.
Even the bunny hill felt scary on my first day.
UsageUsed before a word: bunny slope.
Oppositedifficult, challenging
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- 3A woman who works as a waitress in a nightclub, wearing a costume with rabbit ears and a tail.
She worked as a bunny at the club to pay for college.
The bunnies carried trays of drinks between the tables.
- 4A snack made from bread with the inside taken out and filled with curry.
We bought a bunny filled with hot bean curry from a little shop near the beach.
The curry runs down your fingers when you eat bunnies with your hands.
UsageSay a quarter bunny. In other places, say bunny chow.
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Less common meanings
- 5In cricket, a batsman who keeps getting out to the same bowler.
Their captain has become the young spinner's bunny this summer.
Every great bowler seems to have a few bunnies he gets out again and again.
UsageSay the bowler's bunny.
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- 6Like a 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 SimkinsHere, bunny means like a bun, soft and bready.Note
- 7A polite slang word for a pad worn during a period.
- 8A bump on the body that comes up after you get hit.
- 9In mining, a big sudden mass of ore, not a long thin line of it.
- 10A narrow gap in a cliff made by running water, or a small wooded valley going down 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 - 11A small drain or covered channel for water, sometimes joining two ditches.
- 12A little pool of water.
- 13A small bridge covered with earth over a ditch in a wet field, just wide enough for a hay cart.
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Origins
From bun, an old word for a rabbit, plus -y, an ending for small or dear things. Where bun comes from is not certain.
Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 3 facts
- Bunny derives from the older rabbit word bun plus -y. en.wiktionary.org
- The suffix -y forms diminutives and terms of endearment. en.wiktionary.org
- The ultimate origin of bun is uncertain. en.wiktionary.org
From bun, a small bread roll, plus -y.
Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 1 fact
- For the adjective meaning resembling a bread roll, bunny is formed from bun (“small bread roll”) plus -y. en.wiktionary.org