Bonny, 1) blithe, cheerful: “be you blithe and b.” Ado II, 3, 69. “b. Kate,” Shr. II, 187. III, 2, 229. “b. sweet Robin,” Hml. IV, 5, 187. “a cherry lip, a b. eye,” R3 I, 1, 94.
2) stout, strong: “made a prey for carrion kites and crows even of the b. beast he loved so well,” H6B V, 2, 12. “the b. prizer of the humorous duke,” As II, 3, 8 (most M. Edd. bony).
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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