BUNS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buns mean? 

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

1. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUNS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

hindquarters; tush; tooshie; tail end; tail; stern; seat; rump; rear end; rear; prat; posterior; nates; keister; arse; hind end; fundament; fanny; derriere; can; buttocks; butt; buns; bum; bottom; behind; backside; ass

Context example:

are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?

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

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Holonyms ("buns" is a part of...):

body; torso; trunk (the body excluding the head and neck and limbs)

 Context examples 

She was so little equal to Rebecca's puddings and Rebecca's hashes, brought to table, as they all were, with such accompaniments of half-cleaned plates, and not half-cleaned knives and forks, that she was very often constrained to defer her heartiest meal till she could send her brothers in the evening for biscuits and buns.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)