A British childish or endearing term for a rabbit — the kind of word you'd use with a toddler or when you're being deliberately cute about someone's pet.
A British childish or endearing term for a rabbit — the kind of word you'd use with a toddler or when you're being deliberately cute about someone's pet. The rhyming reduplication (bunny + wunny) is a classic feature of baby talk and affectionate speech in English, adding extra warmth and softness to an already gentle word. Adults use bunny-wunny either genuinely when talking to small children or ironically when teasing someone about their adorable pet. Either way, it's charming and impossible to say angrily.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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A puerile or affectionate British English term for a young child — the kind of word a parent or grandparent would use in a cooing, baby-talk kind of way. It's formed by rhyming reduplication, the same process that gives us 'itsy-bitsy' or 'teeny-weeny.' In modern use it's mostly ironic — adults calling each other 'kiddy widdies' when someone acts immature or gets overly sensitive about something trivial.
(slang, US) A stupid person.
(slang) A boy or man who wears a bunny costume and plays the role of a bunny.
A playful, childlike euphemism for sexual intercourse — think of it as the slang equivalent of a knowing wink. The reduplication gives it a deliberately silly, cartoonish quality that softens the subject matter. Used mostly in humorous or self-aware contexts rather than seriously, it's the kind of term you'd use when you want to reference sex without being explicit — in comedy, around mixed company, or when you just want to make someone smile.
She pointed at the garden and squealed, 'Mummy, look — a bunny-wunny!'
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(UK, childish, or, endearing) A bunny; a rabbit.
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