BUN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bun mean? 

• BUN (noun)
  The noun BUN has 1 sense:

1. small rounded bread either plain or sweet

  Familiarity information: BUN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small rounded bread either plain or sweet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

bun; roll

Hypernyms ("bun" is a kind of...):

bread; breadstuff; staff of life (food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bun"):

tea bread (sweetened buns to be eaten with tea)

frankfurter bun; hotdog bun (a long bun shaped to hold a frankfurter)

hamburger bun; hamburger roll (a round bun shaped to hold a hamburger patty)

brioche (a light roll rich with eggs and butter and somewhat sweet)

crescent roll; croissant (very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll)

hard roll; Vienna roll (yeast-raised roll with a hard crust)

soft roll (yeast-raised roll with a soft crust)

kaiser roll (rounded raised poppy-seed roll made of a square piece of dough by folding the corners in to the center)

Parker House roll (yeast-raised dinner roll made by folding a disk of dough before baking)

clover-leaf roll (yeast-raised dinner roll made by baking three small balls of dough in each cup of a muffin pan)

onion roll (yeast-raised roll flavored with onion)

coffee roll; sweet roll (any of numerous yeast-raised sweet rolls with our without raisins or nuts or spices or a glaze)

bagel; beigel ((Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust)

 Context examples 

Higher or lower than normal values for the serum electrolytes; usually affecting NA, K, CHL, CO2, glucose, bun.

(Electrolyte Imbalance, NCI Thesaurus)

Anything you say, replies the shortsighted parent, preparing herself to sing, The Three Little Kittens half a dozen times over, or to take her family to Buy a penny bun, regardless of wind or limb.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Ere I permitted myself to request an explanation, I tied the string of Adele's pinafore, which happened to be loose: having helped her also to another bun and refilled her mug with milk, I said, nonchalantly—Mr. Rochester is not likely to return soon, I suppose?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Long did the hours seem while I waited the departure of the company, and listened for the sound of Bessie's step on the stairs: sometimes she would come up in the interval to seek her thimble or her scissors, or perhaps to bring me something by way of supper—a bun or a cheese-cake—then she would sit on the bed while I ate it, and when I had finished, she would tuck the clothes round me, and twice she kissed me, and said, Good night, Miss Jane.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)