bunny

noun

1. (childish, informal)A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.

   “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.”

2. A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.

   “‘Gwen has a job as a bunny because says she's sick of sex.’”

3. In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
4. (dated, euphemistic, slang)A menstrual pad.

   “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'.”

   “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)!”

5. Synonym of rabbit (“batsman frequently dismissed by the same bowler”).
6. (UK, dialectal)A swelling from a blow; a bump.
7. A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.
8. (UK, dialectal)A culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches.
9. (UK, 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.

   “Friar's Cliff and Highcliffe have always been what the second name suggests: cliffs too high to scale easily and with no convenient bunnies, chines or combes.”

10. (UK, dialectal)Any small drain or culvert.
11. (UK, 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.
12. (UK, dialectal)A small pool of water.
13. (South-Africa)Bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry.

    “Surfers from Durban grew up on bunnies. You get the curry in the bread with the removed square chunk, used to dunk back in the curry.”

adj

1. Easy or unchallenging.

   “Let’s start on the bunny slope.”

   “We are on the bunniest of bunny hills. I've fallen no fewer than six times and I love every minute of it.”

2. (humorous, rare)Resembling a bun (small bread roll).

   “If you would like to make some buns with more of a Chelsea bunlike texture follow the recipe above, but increase the flour to 300g (11oz). This will make them less rich and more 'bunny'.”

   “Before the interregnum, the cakes made for weddings had been pathetic offerings, consisting mainly of piles of biscuits and scones. When you read the list of ingredients -- sugar, eggs, milk, flour, currents, and spices -- these must have looked and tasted a lot like hot cross buns, but without being hot, without the cross, and without being particularly bunny.”

name

1. A village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK5829).
2. (slang)A fan of the South Korean girl group NewJeans.