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–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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—Idiom

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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BUN

blood urea nitrogen: the concentration of nitrogen in the blood in the form of urea, indicating kidney function.

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n.

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.

[Middle English bunne, probably from Old French bugne, boil, of Celtic origin.]

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n. Slang
A drunken spree.

[Origin unknown.]

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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

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bun [ban] noun

a kind of sweet cake
Example: a currant bun

Arabic:	كَعْكَةُ زَبيب
Chinese (Simplified):	小圆面包
Chinese (Traditional):	小圓麵包
Czech:	buchta, sladká žemle
Danish:	basse; bolle
Dutch:	zoet broodje
Estonian:	kukkel
Finnish:	pulla
French:	brioche
German:	das Korinthenbrötchen
Greek:	είδος γλυκίσματος
Hungarian:	molnárka
Indonesian:	roti manis
Italian:	panino dolce*, ciambella
Japanese:	小型ロールパン

Korean:	작은 롤빵
Latvian:	smalkmaizīte
Lithuanian:	bandelė
Norwegian:	bolle
Polish:	bułeczka
Portuguese (Brazil):	pãozinho doce
Portuguese (Portugal):	queque
Romanian:	chec
Russian:	плюшка
Slovak:	brioška
Slovenian:	kolaček
Spanish:	bollo
Swedish:	bulle
Turkish:	çörek

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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.

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BUN
blood urea nitrogen

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