Bonxie vs Bonnie - What's the difference?
bonxie | bonnie |
(UK, chiefly, Shetland) the great skua, Stercorarius skua
* 2006 , Graham Uney, Backpacker's Britain: Northern Scotland?
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* 1936 Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind :
As a noun bonxie
is (uk|chiefly|shetland) the great skua, stercorarius skua .As an adjective bonnie is
gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe.bonxie
English
Noun
(en noun)- Bonxies are more than happy to fly at you as you walk harmlessly across the moors, and they regularly clip people with a wing or extended foot...
bonnie
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Rhett leaning over the child had said: 'Her eyes are going to be pea-green.'
- 'Indeed they are not,' cried Melanie indignantly, forgetting that Scarlett's eyes were almost that shade. 'They are going to be blue, like Mr O'Hara's eyes, as blue as - as blue as the bonnie blue flag.'
- 'Bonnie Blue Butler,' laughed Rhett, taking the child from her and peering more closely into the small eyes. And Bonnie she became until even her parents did not recall that she had been named for two queens.