单词 | bun |
释义 | bun (once / 2178 pages) n A bun is a small roll, usually made of wheat flour and baked in an oven. You might bake a batch of buns for a breakfast treat on Sunday mornings. Some people celebrate spring or the Easter holidays by making hot cross buns, sweet rolls with currants or raisins and light frosting. Because buns are commonly small and round, the hairstyle that involves a tight coil of hair on the top or back of the head is also called a bun. The origin is probably the French buignete, "a fritter," which had the unpleasant original meaning of "a boil" or "a skin swelling." WORD FAMILYbun: buns USAGE EXAMPLESYou break off a piece of the meat, top it with a bit of the salty greens, and tuck it into a fluffy bun. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) The thick slices of overnight-smoked brisket in the Stacked sandwich are tender enough to chew through without dragging the whole pile off the bun. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) The adorable cherubic face of the Honey Bun Baby brought us one of the sweetest memes of 2016. Los Angeles Times(Dec 28, 2016) n small rounded bread either plain or sweet Syn|Hypo|Hyper roll tea bread sweetened buns to be eaten with tea frankfurter bun, hotdog buna long bun shaped to hold a frankfurter hamburger bun, hamburger rolla round bun shaped to hold a hamburger patty briochea light roll rich with eggs and butter and somewhat sweet crescent roll, croissantvery rich flaky crescent-shaped roll Vienna roll, hard rollyeast-raised roll with a hard crust soft rollyeast-raised roll with a soft crust kaiser rollrounded raised poppy-seed roll made of a square piece of dough by folding the corners in to the center Parker House rollyeast-raised dinner roll made by folding a disk of dough before baking clover-leaf rollyeast-raised dinner roll made by baking three small balls of dough in each cup of a muffin pan onion rollyeast-raised roll flavored with onion coffee roll, sweet rollany of numerous yeast-raised sweet rolls with our without raisins or nuts or spices or a glaze bagel, beigel(Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust cross bun, hot cross bunmoderately sweet raised roll containing spices and raisins and citron and decorated with a cross-shaped sugar glaze bialy, bialystokerflat crusty-bottomed onion roll bear claw, bear pawalmond-flavored yeast-raised pastry shaped in an irregular semicircle resembling a bear's claw cinnamon bun, cinnamon roll, cinnamon snailrolled dough spread with cinnamon and sugar (and raisins) then sliced before baking caramel bun, honey bun, schnecken, sticky bunrolled dough spread with sugar and nuts then sliced and baked in muffin tins with honey or sugar and butter in the bottom pinwheel rollpinwheel-shaped rolls spread with cinnamon and sugar and filled with e.g. jam before baking danish, danish pastrylight sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese onion bagelbagel flavored with onion bread, breadstuff, staff of life food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked |
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