bun

Signification (Anglais)

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.
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.
10. (slang) The vagina.

Verb

To form (the hair) into a bun.

Verb

1. (Caribbean, slang) To smoke cannabis.
2. (Multicultural-London-English, slang) To shoot.
3. (Multicultural-London-English, slang) To forget.

Concepts

chignon

brioche

fesse

pain

🍞

petit pain

postérieur

friand

petit pain au lait

biture

roulé

derrière

Synonymes

roll

chignon

topknot

bread roll

cheek

brioche

bap

croissant

🥐

doughnut

🍩

knot

🪢

pretzel

🥨

puff

sweetbread

tie

tuft

baked roll

flat bread

brötchen

plain coffeebread

white pizza

bread

🍞

buttock

cake

🍰

coil

cookie

🍪

cooky

Traductions

Brötchen

crocchia

bollo

Dutt

moño

panino

κότσος

Haarknoten

broodje

panecillo

çörek

τσουρέκι

σταφιδόψωμο

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bʌn/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: bunne

Appartenant à français: beignet

Appartenant à néerlandais: bonk

In summary

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.

Phrases

During this time , he earned his nickname " Egg in a bun ".

Pendant ce temps, il a gagné son surnom "Egg in a Bun".