If you described a baby as Bonny what would you mean?

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If someone described a baby as Bonny, what would it mean to you?

Attractive. Beautiful. Cute. Happy. Healthy.

Basically, you have an adorably cute baby!

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Pleasantly plump or pretty

Where are people getting chubby from?
It means pretty as in Bonnie Scotland, bonnie lass, bonnie bairn. Never known it to mean chubby.

Thank you, I was beginning to worry about how many parents I'd offended by calling their kids chubby!
As someone up thread mentioned, the phrase bonnie Scotland doesn't mean chubby Scotland.

It probably just means beautiful, but in my head it means chubby with rosy cheeks.

No, neither have I. I've always thought of it as a Scottish and maybe North East expression to mean pretty/handsome.

Healthy, cheerful, and alert looking.

Healthy, cheerful, and alert looking.

A lovely looking wee thing.

It has different regional meanings.

Im Scottish so use it that way but because I know it has a different meaning in other parts of the UK I really only refer to Scottish babies and children as Bonny

A robust little body! Healthful and fine.

If a woman is called a 'bonny lass' she's pink cheeked, not slender, smiley, healthy

Cute and smiley, pink-cheeked and healthy. Not necessarily chubby but aren’t all babies pleasingly rounded?

Cheerful, cute, rosey cheeked

My Scottish husband calls babies & people bonnie, binnie baby, bonnie lass, bonnie laddie, ust asked him what he means (and told him it was Mumsnet thing)he says beautiful.
Asked him if he thinks it means chubby he said "no! is that what the English are saying, what bollocks"

Same. I have never heard it meant to mean fat. Not even back in the day “Olden days” when the local papers used to have Bonny Baby competitions.

Pretty
I would also say it about a young girl/ women
Meaning isn't she pretty
But I also know it can also mean quite chubby.

have not RTFT. If I say bonny about a baby it means

handsome
hale
energetic
glowing
healthy
alert
"picture of robust health"

Different places might have different meanings but in the NE it's usually just in place of 'pretty'. "Dead bonny"= Very pretty.

Never associated the word Bonny with chubby but for me it means pretty face

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Pretty.

I’m in NE Scotland and bonnie would be used to describe something that is nice - eg it’s a bonnie day for a picnic, that’s a bonnie looking dress you have on. I’ve never heard of it being associated with weight before. If I said someone was a bonnie girl I would mean very pretty.

When my DD was a baby she was sitting (supported ) on my Dads lap , he said "she's quite sturdy isn't she "?

DD is 23 now and took some convincing that sturdy in my Dads eyes was a compliment. He was Glaswegian , born in the 1930s .
Babies who were fragile didn;t thrive .

(DD forgave him )

I’m Scottish and understand it to mean attractive, whether a person, a view or whatever. I’ve not come across it meaning fat.

Smiley cute and cuddly.