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bun

Pronunciation: /bʌn/

The English word “bun” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A small bread roll that is sweetened or spiced.
  2. A bread roll that is served with a savoury filling such as a hamburger or hot dog.
  3. Any bread roll.
  4. A cupcake.
  5. A roll of hair worn at the back of the head.
  6. A drunken spree.
  7. A newbie.
  8. A young girl or woman.
  9. A buttock.
  10. The vagina.
  11. A bunny: a rabbit.
  12. A squirrel.
  13. The scut or tail of a hare.
  14. A dry stalk.
  15. marijuana cigarette, joint
  16. A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm.

verb

  1. To form (the hair) into a bun.
  2. To smoke cannabis.
  3. To shoot.
  4. To forget.

Etymology

From Middle English bunne (“wheat cake, bun”), from Anglo-Norman bugne (“bump on the head; fritter”), from Old French bugne (hence French beignet), from Frankish *bungjo (“little clump”), diminutive of *bungu (“lump, clump”), from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“clump, lump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Dutch bonk (“clump, clot, cluster of…

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