bun
(bun)
noun
- a small roll made of bread dough, sometimes sweetened or spiced or containing raisins, etc.
- 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
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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
- A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced and sometimes containing dried fruit.
- 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
.noun
Slang
A drunken spree.
Origin:
Origin: Origin unknown
.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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