▪ a person of a specified type or in a specified mood:informal"ski slopes crawling with snow bunnies"
Word Originearly 17th century (originally used as a term of endearment to a person, later as a pet name for a rabbit): from dialect bun ‘squirrel, rabbit’, also used as a term of endearment, of unknown origin. bunny (sense 2 of the noun) dates from the early 20th century.