bunny

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   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.
2. 2

   A bunny girl

   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.’
3. 3

   In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.

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   1. 4

      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'.
      • 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)!
   2. 5

      Synonym of rabbit (“batsman frequently dismissed by the same bowler”).

   3. 6

      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.
   4. 7

      A swelling from a blow

      A swelling from a blow; a bump.

   5. 8

      A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.

   6. 9

      A culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches.

   7. 10

      A chine or gully formed by water running over the edge of a cliff

      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.
   8. 11

      Any small drain or culvert.

   9. 12

      A brick arch or wooden bridge, covered with earth across a drawn or carriage in a…

      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.

   10. 13

       A small pool of water.

   11. 14

       Bunny chow

       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.
   12. 15

       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'.
   13. 16

       A village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref…

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

   14. 17

       A fan of the South Korean girl group NewJeans.

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