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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced and sometimes containing dried fruit.
  2. n. A tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head.
  3. n. Slang A drunken spree.
  4. n. Slang One of the buttocks. Often used in the plural.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A slightly sweetened and flavored roll or biscuit; a sweet kind of bread baked in small cakes, generally round.
  2. n. A dry stalk; the dry stalk of hemp stripped of its rind.
  3. n. The tail of a hare.
  4. n. A rabbit. Also called bunny.
  5. n. A flat-bottomed boat square at both ends.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced.
  2. n. A tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head.
  3. n. A drunken spree.
  4. n. A newbie.
  5. adj. good (positive)

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. any of a variety of slightly sweetened or plain raised cakes or bisquits, often having a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.
  2. n. a type of coiffure in which the hair is gathered into a coil or knot at the top of the head.
  3. n. the buttocks.
  4. n. same as blood urea nitrogen; the concentration of nitrogen in blood present in the form of urea; -- used as a measure of kidney function.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. small rounded bread either plain or sweet

Etymologies

  1. Middle English bunne, probably from Old French bugne, boil, of Celtic origin.Origin unknown.Dialectal, hind part of a rabbit or squirrel, from Scottish Gaelic, stump, bottom, from Old Irish.

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