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honey bun

honey bun noun: a glazed fried yeast pastry with honey and cinnamon in the dough.

honey bun: a glazed fried yeast pastry with honey and cinnamon in the dough
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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
alternative formhoney-bun
alternative formhoneybun

Questions about honey bun

What does honey bun mean?
Honey bun means a glazed fried yeast pastry with honey and cinnamon in the dough.
What part of speech is honey bun?
Honey bun is a noun.
What is the plural of honey bun?
The plural of honey bun is honey buns.

Words near honey bun in the dictionary

  1. honey bees
  2. honey bird
  3. honey blond
  4. honey bucket
  5. honey buckets
  6. honey bun
  7. honey bunnies
  8. honey bunny
  9. honey buns
  10. honey butter
  11. honey butters

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