why are rabbits called bunnies?

Answer 1

Bun was an English dialect word, recorded from the sixteenth century, which was used for a squirrel or rabbit. It seems that the word turned into the endearment bunny in the following century, and only later was it transferred back to the rabbit. There is a suggestion that the word may have originally referred to the small tail of the rabbit, in the same way that a tight coil of hair at the back of the neck was also called a bun, because both were roughly the shape and size of the cake. Others argue that the origin was the Gaelic word bun that meant a stump or root, and which could refer to the tail of a hare.

Answer 2

In my effort to find out I googled 'bunny rabbits' and the first site has the best photo of a giant bunny you've ever seen - do have a look! Now I've looked in my trusty dictionary and it tells me that 'bun' is a dialect word for a rabbit's tail - so that's why we call them 'bunnies'.

Answer 3

i always thought that rabbits were grown and baby rabbits are bunnies but i am no for sure on that

Answer 4

Bunnies is just a name a child would use.

Answer 5

It started out as a Lancaster dialect word

Answer 6

Check the Oxford English Dictionary for "bunny."

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a lifetime.

:-)

Answer 7

Same reason cats are called kitties.

Answer 8

i call dead ones at the side of the road runny babitts ....eeewwww!

Answer 9

i have no idea!!!!