Meaning

4 senses

  1. (transitive)To form (the hair) into a bun.

  2. (Caribbean, slang)To smoke cannabis.

  3. (Multicultural London English, slang)To shoot.

    2004, MC Forcer, guest on Lethal Bizzle, "Pow!" Don't care about your crew, bun them any day

  4. (Multicultural London English, slang)To forget.

Examples

155 sentences

  1. She wears her hair in a bun.

    ruОна собирает волосы в пучок. — odexed

    deSie trägt ihr Haar in einem Knoten. — raggione

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  2. How many hamburger buns did you buy?

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  3. Mary pulled her hair into a bun.

    deMaria zog sich das Haar zu einem Knoten zusammen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. Mary often wears her hair in a bun.

    ruМэри часто убирает волосы в пучок. — amanshi

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  5. Mary pulled her hair in a bun.

    deMaria zog sich das Haar zu einem Knoten zusammen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Origin

From Middle English bunne (“wheat cake, bun”), from Anglo-Norman bugne (“bump on the head;

From Middle English bunne (“wheat cake, bun”), from Anglo-Norman bugne (“bump on the head; fritter”), from Old French bugne (hence French beignet), from Frankish *bungjo (“little clump”), diminutive of *bungu (“lump, clump”), from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“clump, lump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Dutch bonk (“clump, clot, cluster of fruits”). More at bunch.

Caribbean pronunciation of burn.

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Forms

buns, bunning, bunned, bunned
Base formbun · to bun
3rd person singularbuns
Present participlebunning
Past simplebunned
Past participlebunned

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybun
he, she, itbuns

Past simpleLesson

all personsbunned

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bunned
he, she, ithas bunned

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bun

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bumperB2bumpkinbumpybunchB1bundle

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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