bonniest
English edit
Adjective edit
bonniest
- superlative form of bonny: most bonny
- 1785, Robert Burns, The Bonniest Lass:
- The bonniest lass that ye meet neist, / Gie her a kiss an' a' that
- 1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
- “Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow,” quoth Robin, “thou seemest happy this merry morn.” ¶ “Ay, that am I,” quoth the jolly Butcher, “and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?”