{"id":85954,"date":"2024-03-26T13:34:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T17:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=85954"},"modified":"2024-03-26T13:34:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T17:34:59","slug":"why-do-we-use-the-word-bunny-to-describe-a-rabbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/why-do-we-use-the-word-bunny-to-describe-a-rabbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Use The Word ‘Bunny’ To Describe A Rabbit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When you think about the word bunny in reference to a rabbit — seems weird right? It all started back in the 14th century.<\/p>\n

The Online Etymology Dictionary says that “bunny” comes from Scotland, where “Bun” was a cute name for a Rabbit, perhaps coming from the French “Bon.” It was a shift from the older word “Cony”, pronounced “cunny,” resulting from the latter word taking on more vulgar anatomical meaning. It’s a weird and strange way to arrive at a word, but it definitely seems to work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you think about the word bunny in reference to a rabbit — seems weird right? It all started back in the 14th century. The Online Etymology Dictionary says that “bunny” comes from Scotland, where “Bun” was a cute name for a Rabbit, perhaps coming from the French “Bon.” It was a shift from the older word “Cony”, pronounced “cunny,” resulting from the latter word taking on more vulgar anatomical meaning. It’s a weird and strange way to arrive at a word, but it definitely seems to work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3866,"featured_media":85955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[27927,29127,17857,14612],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85956,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85954\/revisions\/85956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85954"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=85954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}