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honey-bun

honey-bun is the alternative form of honey bun.

Meaning of honey bun

Noun

honey bun (plural honey buns)

  1. A glazed fried yeast pastry with honey and cinnamon in the dough.
  2. (colloquial) Honey; sweetheart (term of endearment).
    • “Oh come off it, honey bun. You know me. I never did the ordinary.” / “Don’t call me honey bun,” said Mum. “I don’t need any of your Americanisms in this house, thank you very much.”2015, Joy Cowley, chapter 13, in The Bakehouse, Wellington: Gecko Press, →ISBN, page 101

Forms of honey-bun

pluralhoney-buns

Questions about honey-bun

What is honey-bun the alternative form of?
Honey-bun is the alternative form of honey bun.

Words near honey-bun in the dictionary

  1. honey wasp
  2. honey wasps
  3. honey weasel
  4. honey weasels
  5. honey wine
  6. honey-bun
  7. honey-buns
  8. honey-butter
  9. honey-butters
  10. honey-colored
  11. honey-comb

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Adapted from Wiktionary: honey-bun (page history and authors); honey bun (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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