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bun /bʌn /noun1A small cake, typically containing dried fruit: a currant bun...- Good Friday is celebrated with a traditional breakfast of codfish cakes and hot-cross buns.
- Imagine children having tea, inevitably squabbling over the buns, teacakes, muffins and - this being a British expression - crumpets.
- 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.
1.1A bread roll.They all indulged in the delicious Bar-b-cue food of sausages, burgers on buns and hot dog rolls....- Ring the changes with pitta bread or sesame buns, instead of the usual sliced bread.
- Serve on whole-wheat buns or Kaiser rolls, or spread on top of rice.
1.2(In Scotland and Jamaica) a rich fruit cake or currant bread.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.
- 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.
2A hairstyle in which the hair is drawn back into a tight coil at the back of the head.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....- Smiling, she tidied up her hair into a tight bun, with a thin, wooden chopstick going through it.
- I quickly pulled my hair into a tight bun, not wanting to bother with a swim cap.
3 ( buns) North American informal A person’s buttocks.It takes a very secure individual to call their buttocks, buns....- 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.
- Tight, toned and shapely buns and thighs can be yours with this energetic new yoga program.
Phrases 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 |