Adjective: bonnie
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | bonnier |
| Superlative | bonniest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more bonnie |
| Superlative | most bonnie |
Sample Sentences
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Be you blithe and bonny
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Converting all your sounds of woe
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Into Hey nonny, nonny. [1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):]
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O once I lov'd a bonnie lass, / Aye, and I love her still [1774, “Handsome Nell”, Robert Burns (lyrics), published 1803:]
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My bonnie friend, come over here.
Adjectives inflected like bonnie
serene,
severe,
secure,
sedate,
wheelie,
simple,
complete,
fulsome,
sprightlie,
discrete,
plosive,
bizarre,
brusque,
brittle,
wholesome,
sincere,
shystie,
loveable,
prophane,
terrible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English *bonie (attested only rarely as bon, boun), probably from Old French bon, feminine bonne (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”). See bounty, and compare bonus, boon. See: Latin Adjectives '
bonus'.