Meaning of bonny in English

Examples of bonny

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We are proud today that our babies are, in the main, bonny babies and that we are rearing healthy children.
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He was a bright, bonny lad, full of enthusiasm for life.
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Employers do not negotiate with shop stewards because they like the look of their bonny blue eyes.
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Let us hope that enough bonny wee things are also being produced to fill the prams.
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I am the father of two bonny children—they are getting a bit elderly now—who were reared on milk.
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Secondly, he was a bonny fighter—and a chivalrous one.
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They tried to steal our pensions policy and made a bonny mess of it.
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Those five children are growing up bright, bonny and healthy.
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Let us look at the improved health and condition of our children—clear-eyed, clean-limbed, bonny children who are a pride and satisfaction to all of us.
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I am glad that this continuous review has brought forth such a bonny child in such a very short time.
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Look at the bonny babies we have today.
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We are the best type of young parent and have two bonny baby girls, one ten months and the other two years two months.
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I hope that, as was the case last night, he will give us a bonny answer.
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She is a bonny fighter.
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It showed a very bonny motive.
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