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bun

/bʌn/

bunnoun

buns

/bʌn/

Translations

I had a bun with my coffee this morning.

Я съел булочку с кофе этим утром.

She tied her hair in a bun for the dance recital.

Она собрала волосы в пучок для танцевального концерта.

Additional translations

Definitions

A small, round, sweet or plain bread roll.

She enjoyed a warm bun with her morning coffee.

A hairstyle in which the hair is drawn back into a tight coil at the back of the head.

She wore her hair in a neat bun for the interview.

(slang, usually plural) A person's buttocks.

He slipped on the ice and landed right on his buns.

Synonyms

bread roll

sweet roll

bunverb

bunned

Past Simple

bunned

Past Participle

bunning

Gerund

Rare but attested; means “to arrange (hair) into a bun.”

Definitions

To draw the hair back and coil it into a bun.

She quickly bunned her hair before the workout.

bunadjective

/bʌn/

Used attributively to qualify nouns related to buns (e.g., bun tray, bun dough).

Definitions

Relating to or intended for buns.

She bought a bun tray for the bakery.