bun
English
/bʌn/
noun
Definitions
- A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced.
- A tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head.
- (Northern England) A cupcake.
- (slang) A drunken spree.
- (Internet) A newbie.
- (informal) A buttock.
- (informal) vagina
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bunne (bun, wheat cake) derived from bugne (fritter, bump on the head) derived from Old French bugne derived from Frankish *bungjo (bump, swelling, lump, a swelling, little clump) derived from Proto-Germanic *bungô derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (thick, dense, fat).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰenǵʰ-
Gloss
thick, dense, fat
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
厚
Emoji
🐻
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Chelsea English
- Chelsea bun English
- Easter Bunny English
- beignet English
- bun fight English
- bunfight English
- bunhead English
- bunless English
- bunlike English
- bunned English
- bunny English
- bunny suit English
- bunnyball English
- bunnyhopping English
- bunnykind English
- fight English
- fuckbunny English
- head English
- honey English
- honeybun English
- honeybunny English
- rock English
- rockbun English
- beignet Finnish
- bignè Italian
- beignet Dutch, Flemish
- bonk Dutch, Flemish
- zeebonk Dutch, Flemish
- beigne French
- beignet French
- *bʰenǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰn̥ǵʰús Proto-Indo-European
- *bungô Proto-Germanic
- *bunkō Proto-Germanic
- बहु Sanskrit
- बहुत्व Sanskrit
- বহুত্ৱ, बहुत्व Sanskrit
- bunne Middle English
- bunga Old Norse
- bignet Old French
- bonge Old French
- bugne Old French
- bonc Middle Dutch
- bignet Middle French
- *bʰaȷ́ʰu-lás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *bungjo Frankish
- bugne xno
- bond West Flemish
- bugnon Lombard