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bun

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Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
8
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/bʌn/
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/bʌn/ · /bʊn/

Definition of bun

23 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Senses referring to baked goods.
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noun

  1. Senses referring to baked goods.
  2. Senses referring to baked goods.
  3. (Northern-England, Northumbria, especially)Senses referring to baked goods.
  4. (Ireland, Northern-England)Senses referring to baked goods.
  5. A roll of hair worn at the back of the head.
    “loose bun;   messy bun;   tight bun”
    “The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.”
  6. (British, slang)A drunken spree.
  7. (Internet)A newbie.
  8. (slang)A young girl or woman.
  9. (Canada, US, in-plural, slang)A buttock.
    “nice buns;   tight buns”
  10. (slang)The vagina.
    “How 'bout I put my hot dog in your bun?”
    “Wait. I can touch your boobs, stick my wiener in your bun, but I can't kiss you?”
    “I'm just saying, you being a mama, it's time to clear the cobwebs. You know what I'm saying? Put a banana in the monkey. You know, hot dog in your bun.”
  11. (abbreviation, alt-of, childish, clipping, colloquial)Clipping of bunny (“rabbit”).
    “She brought home two new buns to join the menagerie!”
  12. (archaic, dialectal)A bunny: a rabbit.
  13. (archaic, dialectal)A squirrel.
  14. (archaic, dialectal)The scut or tail of a hare.
  15. (archaic, dialectal)A dry stalk.
  16. (Caribbean, Multicultural-London-English, slang)marijuana cigarette, joint
    “Man say that they spray the fire I fuck that shit, I drop the bun”
  17. A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm.
  18. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of blood urea nitrogen.

verb

  1. (transitive)To form (the hair) into a bun.
    “Bunning her hair, she left her childhood bedroom for the hall.”
  2. (Caribbean, slang)To smoke cannabis.
  3. (Multicultural-London-English, slang)To shoot.
    “2004, MC Forcer, guest on Lethal Bizzle, "Pow!" Don't care about your crew, bun them any day”
    “Some man acting dumb, think's he's a gun-man, wanna bring me drama. How you gonna bun me?”
    “Look, come round, come round gunning, I still look try to bun him Don't chat on the net ’bout bunnin, oh my God why the fuck you runnin?”
    “The K in the back, the glock in the front It’s one in the head, you know how we bun”
  4. (Multicultural-London-English, slang)To forget.

name

  1. A surname from Khmer.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

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 fruits”). More at bunch.

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