Tuesday word: Bonhomie

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Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025

Bonhomie (noun)
bon·ho·mie [bon-uh-mee, bon-uh-mee; French baw-naw-mee]

noun
1. frank and simple good-heartedness; a good-natured manner; friendliness; geniality.

Other Words From
bon·ho·mous [bon, -, uh, -m, uh, s], adjective

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Origin: First recorded in 1795–1805; from French, equivalent to bonhomme “good-natured man” ( boon , Homo ) + -ie -y

Recent Examples on the Web
The relative bonhomie of the Obama administration, when the countries held wide-ranging talks on bilateral, regional, and global issues, is unlikely to return any time soon.
—Zhou Bo, Foreign Affairs, 13 May 2024

Some informal soccer even took place, now an iconic image of the bonhomie (although whether any games actually got going is disputed).
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024

Set in the 1950s Midwest, Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams brought a winning, working-girl bonhomie to the bachelorette lifestyle — and put a mark on TV wardrobes with their signature sweaters bearing curlicue initials.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2024

And in place of executions and sermons that pepper many of their videos are bucolic scenes of bonhomie and carefree pleasures.
—Joshua Meservey, Foreign Affairs, 17 Dec. 2015