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Audio Help [buhn] Pronunciation Key –noun
| 1. | any of a wide variety of variously shaped bread rolls, usually leavened and slightly sweetened or plain, sometimes containing spices, dried currants, etc. |
| 2. | hair gathered into a round coil or knot at the nape of the neck or on top of the head in certain coiffures. |
| 3. | buns, Slang. the buttocks. |
[Origin: 1325–75; ME bunne, of obscure orig.
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| have a bun on, Slang. to be intoxicated: Everyone at the party seemed to have a bun on. |
[Origin: 1900–05; of uncert. orig.
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| blood urea nitrogen: the concentration of nitrogen in the blood in the form of urea, indicating kidney function. |
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| bun 1
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n.
[Middle English bunne, probably from Old French bugne, boil, of Celtic origin.] |
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| bun 2
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n. Slang A drunken spree. [Origin unknown.] |
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| bun 3
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n. Slang One of the buttocks. Often used in the plural. [Dialectal, hind part of a rabbit or squirrel, from Scottish Gaelic, stump, bottom, from Old Irish.] |
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1371, origin obscure, perhaps from O.Fr. bugnete "a fritter," orig. "boil, swelling," dim. of bugne "swelling from a blow, bump on the head," from Gaul. *bunia (cf. Gael. bonnach). Of hair coiled at the back of the head, first attested 1894. The first record of buns in the sense of "male buttocks" is from 1960s; but the singular form meant "tail of a hare" (c.1538) in Scot. and northern England dialect and was transferred to human beings (and conveniently rhymed with nun in ribald ballads). This may be an entirely different word.
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| bun | |
noun | |
| small rounded bread either plain or sweet |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
bun [ban] noun
a kind of sweet cake
Example: a currant bun
Example: a currant bun
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Bun
Bun\, Bunn \Bunn\, n. [Scot. bun, bunn, OE. bunne, bonne; fr. Celtic; cf. Ir. bunna, Gael. bonnach, or OF. bugne tumor, Prov. F. bugne a kind of pancake; akin to OHG. bungo bulb, MHG. bunge, Prov. E. bung heap, cluster, bunny a small swelling.] A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
| BUN blood urea nitrogen |
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