Bunny Meaning
/ˈbʌni/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA rabbit, especially a juvenile one.
nounA bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
Sentence Examples
That was an evil bunny.
That was an angry bunny.
She was symbolized by the egg and the bunny.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The little girl carried a fluffy stuffed ____ with long ears to bed.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The young children loved chasing the small white ____ across the grass.
Word Origin & History
From bun (“rabbit”) + -y (diminutive suffix). Probably from Scottish Gaelic bun (“bottom, butt, stump, stub”), from Old Irish bun (“the thick end of anything, base, butt, foot”), from Proto-Celtic *bonus, though its origin is uncertain. Compare also English bum. Together with rabbit, bunny has largely displaced its former rhyme cony (see cony for more).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 2025 August 14, Angela Haupt, “What to Know About the Horned ‘Zombie’ Rabbits Hopping Around Colorado”, in TIME, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2025:
"‘Gwen has a job as a bunny because says she's sick of sex.’"
— 1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, Flamingo 1993 edition, page 578:
"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'."
— 1992, Maureen Sutton, We Didn't Know Aught, page 17:
"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)!"
— 2007, E. J. McNair, A British Army Nurse in the Korean War, page 177:
"We are on the bunniest of bunny hills. I've fallen no fewer than six times and I love every minute of it."
— 2014, Carey Heywood, Sawyer Says: A Companion Novel to Him and Her, →ISBN:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The little girl carried a fluffy stuffed ____ with long ears to bed.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The young children loved chasing the small white ____ across the grass.