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Bunny vs Banana - What's the difference?

bunny | banana |

As nouns the difference between bunny and banana

is that bunny is a culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches while banana is an elongated curved fruit, which grows in bunches, and has a sweet creamy flesh and a smooth yellow skin.

As adjectives the difference between bunny and banana

is that bunny is in skiing, easy or unchallenging while banana is curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.

As an acronym BANANA is

Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone (or) Anything. Someone who objects to the building of any structure in their neighborhood, especially in public policy debate. Used as an expression of irritation towards people who are thought of as being worse than NIMBYs.

bunny

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(bunnies)
  • A culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches.
  • 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.
  • Any small drain or culvert.
  • 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.
  • A small pool of water.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) bony, .

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (bunnies)
  • A swelling from a blow; a bump.
  • (mining) A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.
  • Etymology 3

    From .

    Noun

    (bunnies)
  • A rabbit, especially a juvenile.
  • A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
  • (sports) In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
  • (South Africa) bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry
  • * 2008 , Steve Pike, Surfing South Africa (page 258)
  • 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.
    Derived terms
    * angst bunny * badge bunny * bunny girl * bunny rabbit * cuddle bunny * dust bunny * Easter Bunny * gym bunny * snuggle bunny * that's the bunny * bunny wunny * snow bunny

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (not comparable) In skiing, easy or unchallenging.
  • Let’s start on the bunny hill.
    Synonyms
    * nursery

    Etymology 4

    From .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a bun
  • Synonyms
    * (resembling a bun) bunlike

    banana

    English

    (wikipedia banana)

    Noun

  • An elongated curved fruit, which grows in bunches, and has a sweet creamy flesh and a smooth yellow skin.
  • The tropical treelike plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, of the genus Musa , has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.
  • (uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
  • (mildly, pejorative, slang, ethnic slur) A person of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian (from the "yellow" outside and "white" inside). Compare .
  • Synonyms

    * (Asian assimilated into Western culture) jook-sing, Twinkie

    Antonyms

    * (Asian assimilated into Western culture) egg (Western assimilated into Asian culture)

    Coordinate terms

    * (Asian assimilated into Western culture) coconut

    Derived terms

    * banana ball * banana bender * banana boat * banana bond * banana hammock * Bananaland * banana shot * banana paper * banana peel * banana pepper * banana plug * bananaquit * banana republic * bananas * bananas Foster * bananery * banana skin * banana split * banoffee * false banana * pink banana * scarlet banana * second banana * snow banana * top banana

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.
  • * 2001 , Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles , page 155, ISBN 0738847917.
  • Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.
  • * 2002 , Andrew Collins, Guild of Honor , page 53, ISBN 1403371490.
  • He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.
  • * 2006 , Richard Witzig, The Global Art of Soccer , page 247, ISBN 0977668800.
  • [...]Bernd Schneider closed the scoring in injury-time with a 23 meter free-kick banana shot into the upper-right corner.

    See also

    * abaca * coconut * dining leaf * matoke * oreo * plantain * sinamay * waragi *

    Hypernyms

    * bunch * hand * ----