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Definition of bun in English: bunnoun bʌnbən 1A small cake, typically containing dried fruit. Example sentencesExamples - Check the label on the biscuits and you'll see that some scones or buns or wholemeal biscuits are the better alternative.
- Will local bakeries that produce buns and chocolate eclairs be affected?
- These were public teapot teas, where we pretended that we were just like everyone else, with cakes or buns.
- At its simplest, coffee is accompanied by a sweet bread called pulla; more elaborate coffees may include a salty dish as well as a pulla ring or buns, cookies, and cakes.
- His wife performed the same function but with more buns and cakes.
- When I was a student, it was a warm refuge to sip on bottomless cups of coffee and indulge in steamed fruit pudding and toasted cinnamon buns.
- Where there might once have been fresh buns, or cakes, or pastries, now there's just a tray of mass-produced muffins wrapped in plastic with an sell-by date several months into the future.
- Sally Lunn's buns are perhaps not as well known as Bakewell tart, Richmond maids of honour and Eccles cakes but that is because they never appear outside their home town.
- Children at Clevedon House raised more than £400 by taking in cakes and buns to sell.
- There will be a wide selection of produce on sale from fresh home baking - from breads, tarts, quiches, cakes, pies, buns - all to make the mouth water.
- So indeed the Berliner, a bun or a jam doughnut, also had to be changed in name.
- Even for those who did not grow up with it, there is something therapeutic about the activity involved - the alluring aromas wafting from the oven, and the comforting taste of freshly baked cakes or buns.
- But other brands of crumb cakes, doughnuts, and cinnamon buns probably have as much trans.
- These offered the most delicious apple strudel, chocolate brownies and buns!
- Her favourites are cream buns and rock buns, and when I take her some her face lights up.
- Save some room for dessert: homemade warm, frosted cinnamon buns and chocolate-chip cookies.
- Imagine children having tea, inevitably squabbling over the buns, teacakes, muffins and - this being a British expression - crumpets.
- Tea, hot-cross buns and Easter eggs, completed the afternoon.
- There were sack races, a tea in the marquee with cakes, buns and sandwiches for 200, and a lad who won the prize for his branch-covered fancy dress of Boots.
- Good Friday is celebrated with a traditional breakfast of codfish cakes and hot-cross buns.
- 1.1 A bread roll.
Example sentencesExamples - Serve warm, sandwiched in a bread bun with a stack of fresh salad.
- Have it on one of those excellent rye bread buns you do so well.
- Then, I imagine, it is pumped into sausage skins and served in a bun smothered in ketchup and mustard.
- Serve while still hot or slap into a bun with a burger and some salad.
- Try a biscuit crust, tortillas, flatbread such as pita, bun halves or a baguette cut in half lengthwise as bases for pizza toppings.
- Chief Reilly lifted the bun of his pastrami and mayo on a kaiser roll, sniffing at it suspiciously.
- It also has dual gas controls with a full range of temperatures, so you can sear burgers on one side of the grill and gently toast buns on the other, just by adjusting the flame.
- It offers 740 calories and 4.9 grams of salt comprising two slices of cheese, two eggs, three strips of bacon and a sausage patty on a bun.
- Serve on whole-wheat buns or Kaiser rolls, or spread on top of rice.
- The crust and the sandwich buns were all freshly made, light warm and doughy.
- There were 3 cute-looking little burgers in mini bread buns.
- Even when it isn't, most people want more on their hamburger than a bun and a little ketchup.
- White bread, in the form of sliced and in the form of hamburger and hot dog buns make up over 50% of what's out there.
- There were sweet potatoes with cheese and sour cream, corn on the cob, hot dogs in buns along with ketchup and mustard, then a bowl full of coleslaw, and squares of red Jell-o set out on a plate.
- Also, anyone who asks for a hamburger without a bun should be left alone to eat in their Atkins friendly fraudulence.
- The children helped bakers from Bettys, who produced the bread buns, and were served sausages cooked by Ladies in Pigs, a group of farmers' wives who promote the merits of British pork.
- Ring the changes with pitta bread or sesame buns, instead of the usual sliced bread.
- They all indulged in the delicious Bar-b-cue food of sausages, burgers on buns and hot dog rolls.
- There is, of course, the option of sausage or schnitzel on a bun, and sauerkraut is available, but will cost you extra.
- It's served on a ciabatta bun and everything about it was perfect.
- 1.2 (in Scotland and Jamaica) a rich fruit cake or currant bread.
Example sentencesExamples - They can also be shredded into scones or bread to add a gorgeous yellow colour, or added to savoury tarts, sweet buns or sponge puddings.
- Try an Easter recipe from our collection of bread recipes, including our Jamaican Easter bun recipe.
- Their patties, Jamaican hard-dough bread, buns, and cakes were a hit; within four years the family had opened stores in New Jersey and Connecticut.
- Scottish baking is superb, apart from the obvious shortbread; pies, scones, buns, fruit cake.
2A hairstyle in which the hair is drawn back into a tight coil at the back of the head. Example sentencesExamples - My grandmother Nellie wore long skirts and aprons, and her hair in a tight bun at the back of her neck.
- Her hair was pulled into a tight bun exposing her beautiful neck.
- She looked very muscular and in her mid-forties with rich, dark brown curly hair put back in a tight bun.
- To keep her hair from falling where it wasn't needed, she had pulled it up to a tight bun and sprayed as much hair spray as the ozone layer allowed.
- She was an aging woman, with her grey hair tied back in a tight bun.
- If local women venture onto the dusty streets at all, they sport ankle-length dresses, buttoned-up blouses and 1930s hairstyles with buns and pompadours.
- After dressing, Abby dampened her hair, pulling it up in a tight bun and tying a black and white ribbon around it.
- Her hair was pulled back into a tight bun, with a few soft bangs curled around, just framing her brow.
- Her hair was pulled up into a bun that let tight ringlets dangle down, her dress was white and iridescent.
- I quickly pulled my hair into a tight bun, not wanting to bother with a swim cap.
- Some people have a natural ability to create buns, updos or French Twists on their own hair without any assistance.
- Long hair was always swept back into a ponytail or bun, and short hair is just combed into place.
- She was young, only about twenty-two, but the way she wore her blond hair pulled back in a tight bun added years onto her age.
- Quick add-ons like wigs, buns, falls and ponytails give you salon hair in-between appointments and they're recyclable.
- Her hair was no longer in a tight bun, but in a loose ponytail.
- They work great on my very thick, pretty curly hair for ponytails and sloppy buns.
- Lydia Scott smoothed a flyaway strand of hair back into her tight bun.
- There are contrasts in hair trends right now, from small, tight buns to big fluffy glamazon hair.
- Maids always wore their hair in tight buns, but the hair of this maid was falling down around her neck.
- Smiling, she tidied up her hair into a tight bun, with a thin, wooden chopstick going through it.
3bunsNorth American informal A person's buttocks. Example sentencesExamples - The only reason, he adds, that I don't have women walking by me and with a sexy glance saying, "Nice Buns", and smiling knowingly, is because I do not use the Bowflexor.
- It takes a very secure individual to call their buttocks, buns.
- Tight, toned and shapely buns and thighs can be yours with this energetic new yoga program.
Synonyms buttocks, behind, backside, rear, rear end, seat, haunches, cheeks
Phrases Example sentencesExamples - This chick, who's like a soapie star in Australia - announced six weeks ago that she had a bun in the oven.
- Once Bening successfully has a bun in the oven, Shandling's work is done, so he becomes the typical lazy husband, not interested in sex or talking.
- Which Big Brother brunette has a bun in the oven?
- It was still a bit strange that I was not yet twenty but still had a bun in the oven.
Origin Late Middle English: of unknown origin. Rhymes begun, done, Donne, dun, fine-spun, forerun, fun, gun, Gunn, hon, Hun, none, nun, one, one-to-one, outdone, outgun, outrun, plus-one, pun, run, shun, son, spun, stun, sun, ton, tonne, tun, underdone, Verdun, won Definition of bun in US English: bunnounbənbən 1A bread roll of various shapes and flavorings, typically sweetened and often containing dried fruit. Example sentencesExamples - When I was a student, it was a warm refuge to sip on bottomless cups of coffee and indulge in steamed fruit pudding and toasted cinnamon buns.
- Tea, hot-cross buns and Easter eggs, completed the afternoon.
- These offered the most delicious apple strudel, chocolate brownies and buns!
- His wife performed the same function but with more buns and cakes.
- Good Friday is celebrated with a traditional breakfast of codfish cakes and hot-cross buns.
- There will be a wide selection of produce on sale from fresh home baking - from breads, tarts, quiches, cakes, pies, buns - all to make the mouth water.
- There were sack races, a tea in the marquee with cakes, buns and sandwiches for 200, and a lad who won the prize for his branch-covered fancy dress of Boots.
- But other brands of crumb cakes, doughnuts, and cinnamon buns probably have as much trans.
- Check the label on the biscuits and you'll see that some scones or buns or wholemeal biscuits are the better alternative.
- Her favourites are cream buns and rock buns, and when I take her some her face lights up.
- Imagine children having tea, inevitably squabbling over the buns, teacakes, muffins and - this being a British expression - crumpets.
- Even for those who did not grow up with it, there is something therapeutic about the activity involved - the alluring aromas wafting from the oven, and the comforting taste of freshly baked cakes or buns.
- Where there might once have been fresh buns, or cakes, or pastries, now there's just a tray of mass-produced muffins wrapped in plastic with an sell-by date several months into the future.
- Will local bakeries that produce buns and chocolate eclairs be affected?
- So indeed the Berliner, a bun or a jam doughnut, also had to be changed in name.
- Save some room for dessert: homemade warm, frosted cinnamon buns and chocolate-chip cookies.
- These were public teapot teas, where we pretended that we were just like everyone else, with cakes or buns.
- Children at Clevedon House raised more than £400 by taking in cakes and buns to sell.
- Sally Lunn's buns are perhaps not as well known as Bakewell tart, Richmond maids of honour and Eccles cakes but that is because they never appear outside their home town.
- At its simplest, coffee is accompanied by a sweet bread called pulla; more elaborate coffees may include a salty dish as well as a pulla ring or buns, cookies, and cakes.
2A hairstyle in which the hair is drawn back into a tight coil at the back of the head. Example sentencesExamples - Her hair was pulled into a tight bun exposing her beautiful neck.
- If local women venture onto the dusty streets at all, they sport ankle-length dresses, buttoned-up blouses and 1930s hairstyles with buns and pompadours.
- I quickly pulled my hair into a tight bun, not wanting to bother with a swim cap.
- She looked very muscular and in her mid-forties with rich, dark brown curly hair put back in a tight bun.
- Quick add-ons like wigs, buns, falls and ponytails give you salon hair in-between appointments and they're recyclable.
- There are contrasts in hair trends right now, from small, tight buns to big fluffy glamazon hair.
- To keep her hair from falling where it wasn't needed, she had pulled it up to a tight bun and sprayed as much hair spray as the ozone layer allowed.
- They work great on my very thick, pretty curly hair for ponytails and sloppy buns.
- She was young, only about twenty-two, but the way she wore her blond hair pulled back in a tight bun added years onto her age.
- Her hair was pulled back into a tight bun, with a few soft bangs curled around, just framing her brow.
- Long hair was always swept back into a ponytail or bun, and short hair is just combed into place.
- After dressing, Abby dampened her hair, pulling it up in a tight bun and tying a black and white ribbon around it.
- Smiling, she tidied up her hair into a tight bun, with a thin, wooden chopstick going through it.
- Lydia Scott smoothed a flyaway strand of hair back into her tight bun.
- She was an aging woman, with her grey hair tied back in a tight bun.
- Her hair was no longer in a tight bun, but in a loose ponytail.
- Some people have a natural ability to create buns, updos or French Twists on their own hair without any assistance.
- Maids always wore their hair in tight buns, but the hair of this maid was falling down around her neck.
- My grandmother Nellie wore long skirts and aprons, and her hair in a tight bun at the back of her neck.
- Her hair was pulled up into a bun that let tight ringlets dangle down, her dress was white and iridescent.
3bunsNorth American informal A person's buttocks. Example sentencesExamples - The only reason, he adds, that I don't have women walking by me and with a sexy glance saying, "Nice Buns", and smiling knowingly, is because I do not use the Bowflexor.
- It takes a very secure individual to call their buttocks, buns.
- Tight, toned and shapely buns and thighs can be yours with this energetic new yoga program.
Synonyms buttocks, behind, backside, rear, rear end, seat, haunches, cheeks
Phrases Example sentencesExamples - Once Bening successfully has a bun in the oven, Shandling's work is done, so he becomes the typical lazy husband, not interested in sex or talking.
- This chick, who's like a soapie star in Australia - announced six weeks ago that she had a bun in the oven.
- Which Big Brother brunette has a bun in the oven?
- It was still a bit strange that I was not yet twenty but still had a bun in the oven.
Origin Late Middle English: of unknown origin. |