bonny fair n.
(US) the hair.
Grimhaven 180: I’m heelin’ down to the Sidney Harbour’s for an ocean wave and a work-out on the bonny fair. | ||
Und. Speaks. | ||
AS XXI:1 Feb. 46: bonny fair. Hair. (Origin uncertain, but probably American.) This is certainly a mistake. The word in rhyming slang is Barnet Fair, named after the most famous horse fair in England, held at Barnet, in Hertfordshire, for four hundred years. | ‘Some Notes on Rhyming Argot’ in||
(con. 1950-1960) Dict. Inmate Sl. (Walla Walla, WA) 15: Bonny-fair – hair. |