Bunny vs Pony - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between bunny and pony

is that bunny is a culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches while pony is any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands.

As adjectives the difference between bunny and pony

is that bunny is in skiing, easy or unchallenging while pony is of little worth.

As a verb pony is

to lead (a horse) from another horse.

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

pony

English

(wikipedia pony)

Etymology 1

1659 from (etyl) (cognate to English foal).

Noun

(ponies)

Any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands.

(regional) A small serving of an alcoholic beverage.

* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 193:

Demon popped into his mouth a last morsel of black bread with elastic samlet, gulped down a last pony of vodka and took his place at the table with Marina facing him across its oblong length.

* 2010 , Dick Lynas, Pies Were for Thursdays: Tales from an Ordinary Glasgow East End Childhood , page 283,

I did not even know what a ‘pony'’, a small chaser of beer, was. But of course I could not admit that. So putting on an air of nonchalance, and a deep voice, I strolled into a pub with one of the other equally naive guys and we ordered two ' ponies of beer.

‘McEwans?’ asked the barman.

‘Naw - ponies ’ said I.

(Australia, New South Wales, Victoria) A serving of 140 millilitres of beer.

(UK, slang) Twenty-five pounds sterling.

(US, slang) A translation used as a study aid; loosely, a crib, a cheat-sheet.

(Cockney rhyming slang) (from "pony and trap" ) Crap; rubbish, nonsense.

Synonyms

* (l)

Derived terms

* dog and pony show * play the ponies * polo pony * pony and trap * pony chaise * pony engine * pony express * pony glass * pony keg * pony truck * pony truss * pony up * Shetland pony

Verb

To lead (a horse) from another horse.

Etymology 2

Shortened from (pony and trap), rhyming with (crap)

Adjective

(er)

(Cockney rhyming slang) Of little worth.

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