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.

I was told ds1 was bonny all the time as a baby (chubby, beautiful skin) he has grown into a perfect specimen of a boy, I still get comments of random strangers about how handsome he is.

In east of Scotland bonny bairns pronounced bony means pretty/handsome child/baby

Years ago they had bonny baby competitions

I've never heard of it meaning a chubby child/baby

I'm up north and I'd never use bonny to mean fat! It's very complimentary and not given up much unless your baby is really beautiful .

I grew up in the NE but live in the SE. When I first took my DD (who'd been born on the 98th percentile and followed her line) to the health clinic, the health visitor took one look at her and "gosh she's bonny isn't she? Really bonny."

Used to the NE definition of that word, I beamed at her and said "thank you!" It soon became clear that we were talking at cross purposes when she began telling me about the dangers of childhood obesity and that I should be reducing her feeds.

DD was 5 weeks old and EBF at the time. When I told her that she told me I should switch to formula and "control" how much she was allowed....

Anyway, definitions clearly vary with geographically!

It's usually a euphamism for chubby (which is generally considered good in a baby, I think). Sometimes it just means a smiley, happy baby. Depends on context, I suppose, like when someone tells you your looking 'well'.

Hi I google'd it ☺

www.google.co.uk/search?q=define+bonny&oq=define+bonny&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3.9132j0j4&client=tablet-android-orange-gb&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

Where I come from it means beautiful but I once got a very dirty look from someone who came from a place where it means fat. Originally meant beautiful but has come to mean chubby in some places.

Chubby and cute