bun

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The menu claimed the bun was a poppyseed bagel, and while it was bagel-shaped

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  1. noun A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced and sometimes containing dried fruit.
  2. noun A tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head.
  3. noun Slang A drunken spree.
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  • And the poems, the neat little poems in four stanzas, stuffed with suggestive metaphors as a bun is stuffed with currants. —  In a Walled Garden
  • It looked like a bun, and he snatched at it and missed. —  The Cosmic Rape
  • The menu claimed the bun was a poppyseed bagel, and while it was bagel-shaped —  The Food Pornographer
  • The bun was a standard issue hamburger bun, the same as you'd purchase at the supermarket. —  mmm-yoso!!!
  • Which reminds me of that Victoria Wood thing about the Meat Lovers 'burger being a burger and no bun, a vegetarian burger is a bun and no burger and the Introverts' burger, which is just a serviette, but you didn't like to say. —  keris stainton
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pastry ·  loaf ·  toast ·  sandwich ·  muffin ·  sausage ·  cake ·  pie ·  cracker ·  lemonade ·  croissant ·  jelly

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

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  1. apparently identical with English dial. boon, from Middle English bone, also bunne, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Gaelic bun, a stump, stock, root, a short, squat person or animal, = Irish bun, stock, root, bottom, = Manx bun, a thick end, butt-end, = Welsh bwn, a spear-head. The 2d and 3d senses may be of different origin.
  2. Origin obscure.
 

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