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What is Bunny short for?

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EldonAve · 26/04/2009 00:37

Barbara?

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seeker · 26/04/2009 00:48

I call my ds Bunny as a pet name - it's not short for anything, it just happened. I wouldn't use it outside our house though!

edam · 26/04/2009 00:50

Not sure but think it might well be Barbara. Or is that Bunty? You need to go and hunt out some girls' boarding school stories from the 50s...

nooka · 26/04/2009 00:52

I thought it was generally held to be short for Rabbit

However on research I see it is short for Berenice - not a name you see very often.

SuperBunny · 26/04/2009 00:52
Scoops · 26/04/2009 00:54

Rabbit

RubyBlueberry · 26/04/2009 00:55

Aren't blokes called Bunny too?

Or is that just if their surname is Warren? (there was one on Eldorado)

seeker · 26/04/2009 00:59

Raffles' sidekick was called Bunny

mrswoolf · 26/04/2009 01:23

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SuziSeis · 26/04/2009 01:34

my dp is bunny but only to me (i hope!)

littleboyblue · 26/04/2009 02:47

I always thought Bunny was short for Elizabeth, you know one of those weird ones like Ted being short for Edward instead of a simple Nick short for Nicholas.

KatyMac · 26/04/2009 07:29

Bunneka - not sure where it's from tho'

2sugarsandapuppy · 26/04/2009 07:36

Isn't it short for anything if you're a female estate agent?

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EldonAve · 26/04/2009 08:45

so if noone is sure what it's short for can you just go ahead and use it as a first name?

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Hassled · 26/04/2009 08:49

I know a 70 year old Bunny - short for Bernard.

Flightattendant25 · 26/04/2009 08:50

I have a lovely friend whose real name is Belinda.

suwoo · 26/04/2009 08:59

I thought it was short for Margaret? Or maybe thats just our weirdo family.

pranma · 26/04/2009 10:17

Bernadette?Brunhilde?

pandavark · 26/04/2009 10:49

i have an aunty bunty and her real name is margaret

dizzydixies · 26/04/2009 11:59

I thought it was short for elizabeth or is that Buffy?

littleboyblue · 26/04/2009 14:25

Oh yeah, dizzy I said earlier that I thought Bunny was short for Elisabeth, but you're fight, now I think it's Buffy.......maybe it's both...........

Tidey · 26/04/2009 14:26

It's short for Edmund in the book 'The Secret History'. No idea what it's short for as a girl's name though.

mollymawk · 26/04/2009 14:32

We had an Auntie Bunny, and her name was Barbara.

Leannabanana · 26/04/2009 14:59

my mum had a cousin Babette and she was called Bunny for short.....but she HATED HATED HATED it....

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EldonAve · 26/04/2009 15:05

did she hate Babette or Bunny?

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