Definition of "bonny"

bonny¹

adjective
comparative bonnier or more bonny, superlative bonniest or most bonny
1. (Geordie) Alternative spelling of bonnie (“attractive”).
  Quotations
  Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matin chime ere he quitted his bowl.
  1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […]
  ‘A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad,’
  1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter VII, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […]

bonny²

noun
plural bonnies
1. (Northern Ireland, informal) Alternative spelling of bonnie (“bonfire”).

bonny³

noun
plural bonnies
1. (mining) A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.