bun

• IPA^(key): /bʌn/

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• 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 *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.

• bunn (archaic)

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.

   Synonyms: hair bun, French roll

   • 2021, Becky S. Li, ‎Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations (page 154)

     The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.

   Hyponym: messy bun

3. (Northern England, Ireland) A cupcake.
4. (slang, Britain) A drunken spree.
5. (Internet slang) A newbie.
6. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A buttock.
7. (slang) The 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.

• cake

(hairstyle): bun drop, Princess Leia bun, man-bun

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

1. (transitive) To form (the hair) into a bun.
   • 2014, A. A. Garrison, The Long Short Story: Novellas (page 39)

     Bunning her hair, she left her childhood bedroom for the hall.

• Bun (bread roll) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bun (hairstyle) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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) (dialect, archaic)

1. A rabbit.
2. A squirrel.
3. The scut or tail of a hare.
4. A dry stalk.

Caribbean pronunciation of burn.

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

1. (Caribbean, MLE and MTE, 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”). Doublet of 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

• búun (Northern Afar)
• búna, buná (Southern Afar)

Borrowed from Arabic بُنّ‎ (bunn).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbun/
• Hyphenation: bun

bún m (plural buunitté f)

1. (Northern Afar) coffee

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “bun”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

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

bun m (indefinite plural bune, definite singular buni, definite plural bunet)

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

   Synonyms: kasolle, kolibe

• bunu

From Latin bonus. Compare Daco-Romanian bun.

bun m (feminine bunã, plural bunj, feminine plural buni or bune)

1. good

• IPA^(key): /βun/

bun

1. bread, bun

• Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

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/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /bˠʊn/, /bˠɞn/
• (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

• Entries containing “bun” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “bun” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bun”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 bun”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 58.

bun

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぶん

From Latin bonus.

bun

1. good

From Latin bonus. Compare Aromanian bun, Romanian bun.

bun

1. good

• rǫu

• bini

bun

1. Alternative form of boun

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

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 bun”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /bun/

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

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

1. good

   E un om bun, crede-mă. ― He is a good man, trust me.

   Sunt bun la fotbal. ― I am good at football.

   Antonym: rău

• bunătate

bun n (plural bunuri)

1. good, asset, possession

Either from the above word or from a Vulgar Latin *avunus, ultimately from the same Proto-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

   Synonym: bunic

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 singular buna or buin, plural buin or bunan)

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

• Edward Dwelly (1911), “bun”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 bun”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

bun ?

1. coffee

Borrowed from Portuguese bom.

bun

1. good

bun

1. very, rather

bun

1. Romanization of 𒇌 (bun)

From English bone.

bun

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

     Orait God, Bikpela i mekim man i slip i dai tru. Na taim man i slip yet, God i kisim wanpela bun long banis bilong man na i pasim gen skin bilong dispela hap.

     →New International Version translation

From Ottoman Turkish بوك‎ (buñ), Proto-Turkic *buŋ. Cognate with Kazakh мұң (mūñ).

bun

1. distress

• IPA^(key): /bũ̀/

bùn

1. (transitive) to dash, to donate, to give away

   ó bùn mi ní owó ― He gave me money

2. (transitive) to gift, bless, or endow someone
3. (intransitive) to be gifted, endowed, or blessed with something

• Sense 1 is a verbal element that subcategorizes an NP-object (receiver) + ní + NP phrase
• bun before a direct object