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.

Aw op I just saw your picture, your baby is very bonnie

It's not fat.

It's cheerful , happy and maybe a bit chubby, rather than scrawny.

A bonnie lass is similar to a buxom lass, so not just confined to babies.
A Bonnie lad is a handsome sort of man, in good shape.

clashcity my Dd is always described as a "wee dot" or "little dot" by old ladies.

In the Midlands, I think it means 'plump'.

In Scotland it means beautiful

Bonny doesn't mean fat - chubby or chunky is fat! Bonny is beautiful. A Bonny bern!

Well in some parts of the country it does mean fat - it might not in some places but elsewhere it's definitely a 'nice' way of saying fat.

bonny
ˈbɒni/
adjectiveSCOTTISHNORTHERN ENGLISH
adjective: bonnie
1.
attractive or beautiful.
"a bonny lass"
synonyms: beautiful, attractive, handsome, pretty, gorgeous, good-looking, nice-looking, well favoured, fetching, prepossessing, ravishing, stunning; More
lovely, nice, sweet, cute, appealing, endearing, adorable, lovable, charming, dear, darling, delightful, winsome, winning;
blooming, bouncing, healthy, fine;
informaldivine, drop-dead gorgeous, easy on the eye, adorbs;
informalbeaut;
literarybeauteous;
archaicfair, comely, taking
"did you ever see such a bonny baby?"
antonyms: unattractive
(of a baby) plump and healthy-looking.
sizeable (usually expressing approval).
"it's worth a thousand pounds, a bonny sum"
nounliterary
noun: bonnie
1.
used as a form of address for one's beloved or baby.
Origin

late 15th century: perhaps related to Old French bon ‘good’.

Although I am doubting the credibility of that particular dictionary purely for use of the word 'adorbs'

I always thought it meant a kind of mix of beautiful, pretty, handsome, robust, healthy, vigorous etc.

It's a good thing whatever it means :)

Happy and giggly

Bonny is a compliment.

It means wholesome, appealing, attractive. It does indicate youth.

In Lancashire you could call anyone 'bonny' - 'She's a bonny lass' for a baby, child or woman.

Also applicable to boys, but usually under the age of 20.

I would take it as pretty/ beautiful but certainly not fat.

(Having said that I love a lovely chubby cheeked baby!)

She's definitely bonny, OP :) What's her name? Her sticky up hair is the same as my DD4. She's often called a 'bonny wee lass' too :)

Well, I'm Scottish and it means 'fat' to me - or certainly a bit porky!

Different to when it's used for a place or a thing. Had an auntie who always told my mum she was looking 'bonny' and it always meant 'get the cabbage soup on' . . .

It is meant in the sense that a fat baby is a healthy baby though - in an old-fashioned way. Agree with PP that you get 'bonny' or 'scrawny' babies and that the latter is probably nowhere near what 'scrawny' actually means.

Im from SE and to me it means pretty or nice looking, I know someone from SW called Bonnie and I think its a pretty name. I also know a person with the nickname bonnie (they are from the NE) and that refers to fat I think!

Oh Oysterbabe, just seen the pic. What a little love! Def a bonny baby.

Bonny lass is my uncle's name for me. He's from a pit village up north. He sometimes says thee me thou too!

He's lovely Downstairs :) Looks a cheeky little poppet.
Leonora her name is Heidi.

Lovely! Her name suits her :)

Fat!!

DS3 is a chubber and very cute so he is bonny either way

It is certainly a compliment, in the North East it means pretty or handsome further North it means looking healthily chubby. My grandparents used to call me a 'bonny bairn' 70 years ago :)
Your little girl is gorgeous.