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Bath bun en · NOUN

Etymology

From the English city of Bath, where it originated.

Meanings

  1. A small, round baked good, having a bread-like consistency, topped with sugar or icing and sometimes small pieces of dried or candied fruit.
    • [H]e felt hungry, so he bought a bath bun and ate it while he strolled along. 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 103, in Of Human Bondage:

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wikipedia: Bath, Somerset

Bath bun en · PROPN

Etymology

From the English city of Bath, where it originated.

Meanings

  1. (UK, slang) The Sun.
    • 'Nice that the Bath bun's out today.' 2015, Sid Finch, The Little Book of Cockney Rhyming Slang:
    • […] the old Bath Bun was simmering as he wrote it. 1968, The British Journal of Photography, volume 115, page 3:

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Synonyms

Currant Bun · currant bun

wikipedia: Bath, Somerset · wikidata: Q525