The story
- Irish · derived frombainne“milk”
- English todaybonnyclabber
Said to be from Irish bainne (“milk”) + clábair (“muddied”) (see English clabber) or Scots Gaelic cognates thereof, with the anglicization of the first element influenced by bonny.
Words from the same roots
Irishbainne all →
clabber
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.