bun

• IPA^(key): /bʌn/
• Rhymes: -ʌn

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 *bungo (“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.

bun (plural buns)

1. A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced.
2. A tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head.
3. (Ireland) A cupcake.
4. (slang, Britain) A drunken spree.
5. (Internet, slang) A newbie.
6. (informal, chiefly in the plural) A buttock.
7. (informal) vagina
   • 1996 Richard Sandomir Life for Real Dummies: A Reference for the Totally Clueless page 5

     How 'bout I put my hot dog in your bun?

   • 2015 Rachelle Ayala Whole Latte Love page 169

     Wait. I can touch your boobs, stick my wiener in your bun, but I can't kiss you?

   • 2019 Hot Blood, Hot Thoughts, Hot Deeds, Empire season 5 episode 13

     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.

• (hairstyle): French roll
• cake

• (hairstyle): Princess Leia bun
• (hairstyle): man-bun

Probably from Scots bun (“tail of a rabbit or hare”), which is probably from Scottish Gaelic bun (“bottom, butt, stump, stub”).[1]

bun (plural buns)

1. (dialectal, archaic) A rabbit or sometimes a squirrel.

Caribbean pronunciation of burn.

bun (third-person singular simple present buns, present participle bunning, simple past and past participle bunned)

1. (Caribbean and MLE, slang) To smoke cannabis.
2. (MLE, African American Vernacular, slang) To shoot.
   • 2004, MC Forcer, guest on Lethal Bizzle, "Pow!"

     Don't care about your crew, bun them anyday

   • 2011, Jme, "Mike Lowery"

     Some man acting dumb, think's he's a gun-man, wanna bring me drama. How you gonna bun me?

   • 2017, “Fire in the Booth”, performed by Taze, reused in ”Usual Suspects”:

     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?

   • 2018, “Slatt Season”, in Sorry For The Get Off‎, performed by Drego & Beno, track 15:

     The K in the back, the glock in the front
     It’s one in the head, you know how we bun

bun (plural buns)

1. (Caribbean and MLE, slang) marijuana cigarette, joint
   • 2018, HL8 and SimpzBeatz (music), “Rolling Round”, performed by Sparko of OMH:

     Man say that they spray the fire
     I fuck that shit, I drop the bun

From the Revised Romanization of Korean 분 (bun), from Chinese 分 (“fen”)

• p'un, pun

bun (plural buns or bun)

1. (Korean units of measure) A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm.

• nub

From Proto-Albanian *bhunā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be wake, keep watch”).

bun f

1. hut (of mountain shepherds), chalet, fenced area (for cattle)

• buj
• bujtinë

• bunu

From Latin bonus. Compare Daco-Romanian bun.

bun m (feminine bunã)

1. good

• bunuescu
• mbunedzu
• nibun

• bunãtati
• ghini

From Latin bonus.

bun m (feminine buna)

1. good

From Old Irish bun (“the thick end of anything, base, butt, foot”), from Proto-Celtic *bonus. Cognate with Welsh bôn.

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /bˠʊnˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bˠʌnˠ/

bun m (genitive singular buin, nominative plural bunanna)

1. base, bottom
2. stock, stump, trunk
3. lower end
4. extremity
5. basis, origin, foundation
6. basic provision
7. settled state
8. source, direction
9. trace
10. (card games) score required to win game

• stoc

• "bun" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “1 bun” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

bun

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぶん

From Latin bonus.

bun

1. good

bun m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bune)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of bon

From Proto-Celtic *bonus. Cognate with Welsh bôn.[1]

• IPA^(key): /bun/

bun m (genitive bona, nominative plural bonai)

1. base
2. bottom
3. butt
4. end

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Irish: bun
• Manx: bun
• Scottish Gaelic: bun

• “1 bun” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

• IPA^(key): /bun/

From Latin bonus, from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”).

bun m or n (feminine singular bună, masculine plural buni, feminine and neuter plural bune)

1. good

• rău

• nebun
• îmbuna
• răzbuna

• bunătate

Either from the above word or from a Vulgar Latin *avunus, ultimately from the same Indo-European root as avus. (Compare the diminutive avunculus, avonculus), probably influenced by or confused with bonus. Compare also Friulian von (“grandfather”), Calabrian and Piedmontese bona ("grandmother") [1].

bun m (plural buni, feminine equivalent bună)

1. (uncommon) grandfather

• bunic

• bună
• bunic, bunică

From Old Irish bun (“the thick end of anything, base, butt, foot”), from Proto-Celtic *bonus. Cognate with Welsh bôn.

• IPA^(key): /pun/

bun m (genitive buna or buin, plural buin or bunan)

1. bottom, base, foundation
2. butt, stub

• bun-os-cionn - upside down
• bun-reachd - constitution (politics)
• bun-sgoil - primary school
• bun-stòr - primary source
• dèan bun no bàrr - make head or tail

bun ?

1. coffee

Borrowed from Portuguese bom.

bun

1. good

bun

1. very, rather

From English bone

bun

1. (anatomy) bone
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 2:21:

     (please add an English translation of this quote)