currant bun

1. (Cookery) Brit a sweet bun containing currants

2. (Cookery) Scot another name for black bun

3. rhyming slang Cockney son

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Translations

currant bun

n → Rosinenbrötchen nt

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currant bun

n → panino con l'uva passa

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On the Jersey side my master said to a stranger who stood eating a currant bun:

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She bought a loaf of brown bread and five currant buns.

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The morning that Dickon--after they had been enjoying themselves in the garden for about two hours--went behind a big rosebush and brought forth two tin pails and revealed that one was full of rich new milk with cream on the top of it, and that the other held cottage-made currant buns folded in a clean blue and white napkin, buns so carefully tucked in that they were still hot, there was a riot of surprised joyfulness.

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The sky's have cleared, the wind has died down and the old currant bun shows its watery face.

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Swap a cake or biscuits for a currant bun or some malt loaf, plain or with reduced-fat spread.

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I'm looking at you, lady with the pram at Gregg's, blocking my access to a currant bun. The baby won't care if you park it up on the left.

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Add a healthy snack like a yoghurt, currant bun or rice pudding.

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