Etymology

bonxie

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Today it means: The great skua, Stercorarius skua. Full definition →

Scots bonxie ← Old Norse bunki
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived frombunki
  2. Scots · derived frombonxie
  3. English todaybonxie

From Scots bonxie, from Old Norse bunki.

Words from the same roots

Old Norsebunki all →

bunker

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.