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Definition of Bonnily
1. Adverb. In a bonny manner.
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
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 Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland: Hitherto Unpublished by Peter Buchan (1875)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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