Meaning and Origin
What does the name Bunny mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
User Submitted Meanings
- 3 submissions from all over the world agree the name Bunny means "Rabbit" and is of Polynesian / Hawaiian / English origin.
- A user from Canada says the name Bunny is of English origin and means "Tiny Rabbit".
- (usually informal) especially a young rabbit
- A young waitress in a nightclub whose costume includes the tail and ears of a rabbit
From bun (“rabbit”) + -y, though its ultimate origin is unknown. Together with rabbit, bunny has largely displaced its rhyme cony.
- A rabbit, especially a juvenile.
- A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
- (sports) In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
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.
- (Britain dialectal) A swelling from a blow; a bump.
- (mining) A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.
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.
- (Britain dialectal) A culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches.
- (Britain dialectal) 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.
- (Britain dialectal) Any small drain or culvert.
- (Britain dialectal) 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.
- (Britain dialectal) A small pool of water.
From bun (“small bread roll”) + -y.