bun

(bun)

noun

  1. a small roll made of bread dough, sometimes sweetened or spiced or containing raisins, etc.
  2. hair worn in a roll or knot

Origin: ME bunne, wheat cake, bun, prob. < OFr buigne, a boil, swelling (> Fr beigne, fruit fritter) < Gaul *bunia

noun

Slang a drunken spree

Origin: prob. contr. < informal (Scot) bung, drunk (short for bung-full, filled to the bung)

See bun in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced and sometimes containing dried fruit.
  2. A tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English bunne

Origin: , probably from Old French bugne, boil

Origin: , of Celtic origin

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noun
Slang
A drunken spree.

Origin:

Origin: Origin unknown

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noun
Slang
One of the buttocks. Often used in the plural.

Origin:

Origin: Dialectal, hind part of a rabbit or squirrel

Origin: , from Scottish Gaelic, stump, bottom

Origin: , from Old Irish

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