Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A rabbit, especially a young one.
  • noun A person of a specific type.
  • noun Sports A shot that is uncontested or should be easily made, as in basketball.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A gully formed by water making its way over the edge of a cliff.
  • noun A swelling from a blow; a bump.
  • noun A pet name for a rabbit.
  • noun Same as bonny.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A pet name for a rabbit or a squirrel.
  • noun (Mining) A great collection of ore without any vein coming into it or going out from it.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A swelling from a blow; a bump.
  • noun mining A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.
  • noun A culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches.
  • noun 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.
  • noun Any small drain or culvert.
  • noun 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.
  • noun A small pool of water.
  • adjective Resembling a bun
  • noun A rabbit, especially a juvenile.
  • noun A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
  • noun sports In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
  • noun South Africa bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry
  • adjective not comparable In skiing, easy or unchallenging.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a young waitress in a nightclub whose costume includes the tail and ears of a rabbit
  • noun (usually informal) especially a young rabbit

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From dialectal bun, rabbit (perhaps from Scots, tail of a hare; see buns) + –y.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English bony, boni ("swelling, tumor"), from Old French bugne, buigne ("swelling, lump"), from Old Frankish *bungjo (“swelling, bump”), from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“lump, clump, heap, crowd”). More at bunion, bunch.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English bune ("hollow stalk or stem, drinking straw"), from Old English bune ("cup, beaker, drinking vessel; reed, cane"), of unknown origin. Related to English bun, boon ("the stalk of flax or hemp less the fibre"), Scots bune, boon, been, see bun, boon. Compare also bunweed.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From bun (“small breadroll”) +‎ -y.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From bun (“rabbit”) +‎ -y.

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Examples

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  • Of course the real actor who plays the title bunny never actually shows her boobies.

    unknown title 2009

  • Just last night I received what I call a bunny facial -- a thorough grooming of my face with a little bunny tongue at 1 a.m. when one of my rabbits decided I needed it.

    Agnieszka Tennant: The Easter Bunny's Seedy Underbelly 2008

  • Watercolor, ink, and potato prints; and the bunny is adorable.

    Five For A Little One 2006

  • I freaked out over the “baby bunny in the forest oh LOOK baby bunny is dead blood everywhere” stories that daughter wrote (dictated) and illustrated in preschool.

    Janie’s Got A Gun | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • And that picture of the easter bunny is my favorite picture ever taken.

    Waldo Jaquith - 1920s-1960s Richmond photo archives on Flickr. 2009

  • The pink bunny is the mascot character of the not-very-sadly missed English school, Nova, which succumbed to market forces last year, although the name has been bought out and the rabbit has returned from the grave and been spotted in television advertisements.

    Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-05 2009

  • Marshall-Stacks said ... children can be traumatised by the loss of a favourite huggy thing, and I guess the nice people know that a missing bunny is Very Significant in a life out there somewhere.

    lost rabbit Another Outspoken Female 2009

  • This lady has problems and needs help because her behavior is not appropriate at all but gentle reminder that 'bunny boiler' is a derogatory term for those who suffer from borderline personality disorder and further stigmatizes a very serious, difficult disorder that often wreaks havoc not only on loved ones but the sufferer as well -- especially the sufferer.

    Would make a bunny boiler look sane growsonwalls 2025

  • What do you do when the Other Woman is a bunny boiler — a stalking, obsessed mistress a la Fatal Attraction? The crazy Other Woman is showing up at her and her daughter’s activities uninvited.

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    Awesome bunny! (copied from oroboros)

    I always thought the only meaning for this was 'rabbit'. It's the only one I ever use for sure!

    July 26, 2009