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Webster 1913 Edition


Bunn

Bunn

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Noun.
See
Bun
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Webster 1828 Edition


Bunn

BUNN

, or BUN,
Noun.
[Gr. a hill, and a cake offered to deities.]
A small cake, or a kind of sweet bread.

Definition 2024


Bunn

Bunn

See also: bunn

Luxembourgish

Noun

Bunn f (plural Bunnen)

  1. lane, track
  2. passage
  3. orbit

bunn

bunn

See also: Bunn

English

Noun

bunn (plural bunns)

  1. Archaic form of bun. (sweetened bread roll)
    • 1816, Joshua E. White, Letters on England
      Such is the general hurry and confusion in the principal streets, such as Castle Street, Lord Street, Pool Lane, Paradise Street, &c. that often passengers take up a bunn, a cake, or some fruit, as they pass the shop of a confectioner or fruit-seller, without stopping, and throw in the pay without inquiring the price.
    • 1856, Lucius Manlius Sargent, Dealings with the Dead (volume 2, page 472)
      "Oh," she replied, "when I came to think of it, I saw, that you were right. I thought, 'twas quite likely it would draw a blank. Crust, the baker, offered me what I gave for it, and a sheet of bunns, to boot, and I let him have it, three weeks ago. []

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Danish bund, and Old Norse botn

Alternative forms

  • botn (Nynorsk also)

Noun

bunn m (definite singular bunnen, indefinite plural bunner, definite plural bunnene)

  1. bottom (lowermost part)

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