To ask what bonny means when describing a baby?

[Oysterbabe]

I'd never heard it before having kids. Everyone keeps telling me DD is bonny. I'm not 100% on what it means. Does it mean fat?
She does have lovely chubby cheeks and thighs that you just can't help but squidge.

[LisaRinnasLips]

Fat basically my dad calls my dd bonny

[echt]

If you're in Lancashire it means a bit fat.

Elsewhere it probably means pretty.

[Princesspinkgirl]

Hi it means beautiful

[LifeIsChaos]

Bonny in the north east means pretty/nice looking.

[PinotAndPlaydough]

I always thought it meant pretty

[IwillrunIwillfly]

In Scotland it means pretty/beautiful :)

[paxillin]

Cute and fat.

[JockTamsonsBairns]

In Scotland it means pretty

[verite]

Just means pretty/cute etc. Nothing negative. At least that's how it's used in the north east.

[QueenCuntyFlippers]

In the NE here, it means pretty.
Bonny bairns :)

[madcapcat]

Here in Scotland it means pretty in a chubby way

[ShatnersBassoon]

No, not fat! It means beautiful. Bonny baby competitions aren't about which one is the fattest.

[TheRollingCrone]

Beautiful "by the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomand"

[Hagothehills]

I always thought it meant something akin to beautiful, like, not just cute but lovely and sweet natured too

[LittleLionMansMummy]

I prefer well covered to 'fat' but i also took it to mean healthy looking, rosy cheeked and lively. I think bonny is a lovely word - exactly what a baby should be!

[pigsDOfly]

I always thought it meant a healthy looking, nicely chubby baby.

[OohhItsNotHoxton]

Happy and cute here.

[Alexa444]

Bonny means beautiful, small. I think literally it means pretty and petite. But language changes. My uncke is scottish and every small girl is a bonny wee lass to him.

[HeckyWithTheGoodBear]

It means fat?? it's my baby's name! Have I subjected her to a life of merciless teasing?

[ArmySal]

I'm Lancashire and it means pretty/a good looker.
Never heard it used as chubby, youngsters can also be classed as bonny, probably up to teens I've heard it mentioned about...

''He's a bonny lad...' etc

[TondelayaDellaVentamiglia]

sturdy, well fed, content, happy, face only a mother could love

BUT also in Scotland I think it is a bit of a cover all....a nice simple unisex compliment, no insult to either sex, so when Miss Jean Brodie is cooing over your PFB she needs not worry about causing offence when she declares Tarquin so very pretty, or states to the entire bus queue that Jocasta is very handsome.

[mouldycheesefan]

Regional variations. In north east means pretty. Elsewhere means fat or chubby.

[Sparrowlegs248]

Not fat. People always refer to ds as bonny. He's cute and happy with lovely rosy cheeks and a big smile. He's not fat though.

[momb]

It means beautiful but comes from a time when a plump baby was the best thing, so they become transposed a little.
'The child that it born on the Sabbath day is bonny and blithe and good and gay.'

[Oysterbabe]

So either pretty or fat or both
I'm in the South West so possibly MIL means it differently than my Scottish friend.