Definition of Bonnily

1. Adverb. In a bonny manner.

Partainyms: Bonny

Definition of Bonnily

1. adv. Gayly; handsomely.

Definition of Bonnily

1. Adverb. gaily; handsomely. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bonnily

1. bonny [adv] - See also: bonny

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bonnily

bonnet monkey
bonnet shark
bonneted
bonnethead
bonnetheads
bonneting
bonnetless
bonnetlike
bonnets
bonnibel
bonnibels
bonnie
bonnier
bonnies
bonniest
bonnily (current term)
bonniness
bonninesses
bonnock
bonnocks
bonny
bonnyclabber
bonnyclabbers
bonobo
bonobos
bononian
bons vivants
bonsai
bonsais
bonsella

Literary usage of Bonnily

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Touchers and Rubs on Ye Anciente Royale Game of Bowles: A Series of Notes by Humphrey J. Dingley (1893)
"THE bools row — the bools row, Your ain as well as mine, O bonnily the bools row, When summer days are fine. O gin the wins wad stop their blaw, ..."

2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1898)
"Rieht bonnily, SANDY, rieht bonnily. But wha 's the mon that 's walking beside ye ? Low TASTES.—Those who prefer their grouse not too high. ..."

3. The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete (1834)
"... light and gay, Stout and steadily, smart and readily, Soft and funnily, blythe and bonnily, Quite an Adonis was Captain Mulligan j Mulligan. ..."

4. Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland: Hitherto Unpublished by Peter Buchan (1875)
"And gar him big a deep, deep creel, A deep creel and a string, string; And ye'll come up to my bedside, And come bonnily linken in, in, ..."

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