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bun ¹  (bn)

n.

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.

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

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bun ²  (bn)

n. Slang

A drunken spree.

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[Origin unknown.]

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bun ³  (bn)

n. Slang

One of the buttocks. Often used in the plural.

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[Dialectal, hind part of a rabbit or squirrel, from Scottish Gaelic, stump, bottom, from Old Irish.]

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bun [bʌn]

n

1. (Cookery) a small roll, similar to bread but usually containing sweetening, currants, spices, etc.

2. any of various types of small round sweet cakes

3. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Hairdressing & Grooming) a hairstyle in which long hair is gathered into a bun shape at the back of the head

have a bun in the oven Slang to be pregnant

[of unknown origin]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

bun - small rounded bread either plain or sweet roll bread, breadstuff, staff of life - food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked tea bread - sweetened buns to be eaten with tea frankfurter bun, hotdog bun - a long bun shaped to hold a frankfurter hamburger bun, hamburger roll - a round bun shaped to hold a hamburger patty brioche - a light roll rich with eggs and butter and somewhat sweet crescent roll, croissant - very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll hard roll, Vienna roll - yeast-raised roll with a hard crust soft roll - yeast-raised roll with a soft crust kaiser roll - rounded raised poppy-seed roll made of a square piece of dough by folding the corners in to the center Parker House roll - yeast-raised dinner roll made by folding a disk of dough before baking clover-leaf roll - yeast-raised dinner roll made by baking three small balls of dough in each cup of a muffin pan onion roll - yeast-raised roll flavored with onion coffee roll, sweet roll - any of numerous yeast-raised sweet rolls with our without raisins or nuts or spices or a glaze bagel, beigel - (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust

Translations

bun [bʌn]

A. N

1. (Culin) → bollo m, magdalena f (Brit) (= cake) → pastel m
to have a bun in the oven → estar en estado

2. (= hairstyle) → moño m
to wear one's hair in a bun → recogerse el pelo en un moño

3. buns (esp US) (= buttocks) → trasero msing

B. CPD bun fight N merienda servida para mucha gente

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bun [ˈbʌn]

n

(= cake) → petit gâteau m

(= roll) → petit pain m

[hair] → chignon m

buns npl (= buttocks) → cul m >

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bun

n

(= bread) → Brötchen nt; (= iced bun etc) → süßes Stückchen or Teilchen; (N Engl: = small cake) → Biskuittörtchen nt; to have a bun in the oven (sl) → einen Braten in der Röhre haben (sl)

(= hairstyle) → Knoten m; she wears her hair in a bun → sie trägt einen Knoten

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bun [bʌn] n (Culin) → panino dolce; (of hair) → chignon m inv, crocchia
to wear one's hair in a bun → portare lo chignon

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bun

n bun [ban]

a kind of sweet cake a currant bun. bolletjie كَعْكَةُ زَبيب кръгла кифла buchta, sladká žemle basse; bolle das Korinthenbrötchen είδος γλυκίσματος bollo kukkel نوعی کیک شیرین pulla brioche לַחמָנִייָה מְתוּקָה पावबन pecivo s grožđicama molnárka roti manis panino dolce, ciambella 小型ロールパン 소형 롤빵 bandelė smalkmaizīte roti ban zoet broodje bolle bułeczka queque chec плюшка brioška kolaček kolačić bulle ขนมปังนุ่มรสหวาน çörek 小圓麵包 здобна булочка بند ، ڈبل روٹی bánh sữa nhỏ 小圆面包

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bun → كعكة محلاة قليلاً houska bolle weiches Brötchen κουλουράκι bollo pulla petit gâteau pecivo ciambella バン 작은 빵 krentenbolletje bolle drożdżówka pão doce pequeno сдобная булочка bulle ขนมปังนุ่ม çörek bánh bao 小圆面包