DCHP-2

bunkie bunky DCHP-2 (October 2016)

• n. — diminutive, Ontario, Housing

  a building on the property of a summer home that provides additional lodging for guests.

  Type: 3. Semantic Change — In Canada, the term is a short form of bunkhouse (see the 2013 quotation) that refers not to workers’ quarters but to summer guest lodging. The term is a Canadianism (see Chart 1), used almost exclusively in Ontario (see Chart 2). Compare also Casselman, s.v. bunkie, who defines the term as "a word used chiefly in Ontario [...] and most often in southern Ontario."
  See also COD-2, s.v. "bunkie", which is marked "Cdn (S Ont)".

  See also: bunkhouse (meaning 2)