Synonyms for bun
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : buhn |
| Phonetic Transcription : bÊŒn |
Définition of bun
Origin :- late 14c., origin obscure, perhaps from Old French buignete "a fritter," originally "boil, swelling," diminutive of buigne "swelling from a blow, bump on the head," from a Germanic source (cf. Middle High German bunge "clod, lump"), or from Gaulish *bunia (cf. Gaelic bonnach). Spanish buñelo "a fritter" apparently is from the same source. Of hair coiled at the back of the head, first attested 1894. To have a bun in the oven "be pregnant" is from 1951.
- The first record of buns in the sense of "male buttocks" is from 1960s, perhaps from a perceived similarity; but bun also meant "tail of a hare" (1530s) in Scottish and northern England dialect and was transferred to human beings (and conveniently rhymed with nun in ribald ballads). This may be an entirely different word; OED points to Gaelic bun "stump, root."
- noun baked roll
- I might, unnoticed, of course, snatch a bun from its grasp now and then.
- Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
- He smelled of the apple, and he looked at the bun, but that was all.
- Extract from : « Harper's Young People, July 27, 1880 » by Various
- I want you up here to help me and Bun Hin's Chinaman to count that money.
- Extract from : « Typhoon » by Joseph Conrad
- I was thinkin' 't was 'most a pity you hadn't had bun sandwiches.
- Extract from : « Peak and Prairie » by Anna Fuller
- Her eyes looked like raisins in a bun and her mouth had almost disappeared.
- Extract from : « Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman » by Emma Speed Sampson
- I had gone in to get a glass of milk and a bun, and she brought them to me.
- Extract from : « Novel Notes » by Jerome K. Jerome
- The child had a bun in both hands, and had stopped in the middle of a bite to watch her.
- Extract from : « Sara Crewe » by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Why should everybody roar with laughter when he asked for a bun?
- Extract from : « They and I » by Jerome K. Jerome
- He looked at the candy-bag and the morsel of bun with horror.
- Extract from : « McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. » by Various
- Feeling around the bed, he found the other bun and dropped it on the floor.
- Extract from : « Greyfriars Bobby » by Eleanor Atkinson
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