bun n.1
1. a squirrel.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Beggar’s Bush II i: What, ha’ you / Bells for my squirrel? I ha’ giv’n Bun meat. |
2. a rabbit.
 | ‘The Crafty Lass’ in Highland Laddie’s Garland 5: Poor Bun did there lye sleeping. | |
| Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions . | |
| , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn). |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
3. referring to the stereotyped sexual appetites of sense 2.
(a) pubic hair; thus the vagina.
| ‘A New Year’s Gift’ in (1969) 215: If pretty bun the stalk devour / ’Twill up again in half an hour. / When once the bun it doth espy / ’Twill mop, ’twill mop, ’twill mop most prettily. | |
| ‘New-years Gift’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 81: If pretty Bun the stalk devour, ’Twil up again in half an hour; When once the Bun it doth espy ’Twill mop most prettily. | |
| in Pills to Purge Melancholy V 278: He swore by the jolly fat Nuns; / If Cards come no better than those that are past, /Oh! Oh! I shall lose all my Buns. | |
| Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Bun [...] a ****. | |
| , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn) n.p.: Bun. A common name for [...] the monosyllable. |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘If You Can Dish It, (I Can Take It)’ 🎵 You got the hotdog, I got the bun, / Let’s get together and have a little fun, / If you can dish it, I can take it. | |
| ‘Press My Button, Ring My Bell’ 🎵 Just put your hot dog in my bun, / And I’ll have that thing, / That thing-a-ling. | |
| Skinny Dip 127: Joey would catch Chaz with his weenie in the wrong bun. |
(b) (Scot.) a prostitute.
| Living Rough 169: She looked like some bun he had clicked on Hope Street. | |
| Cut and Run (1963) 158: It’s no’ ma fau’t you’re runnin’ aboot wi’ an aul’ wine-moppin’ bun. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | (con. mid-1960s) Glasgow Gang Observed 106: Of the three ‘cows’ associated with Tim’s gang, I met only one [...] To the Young Team she was ‘a pure pump, a pure bun, a fuckin’ cow’. |
(c) (Aus.) a woman who is subjected, voluntarily or not, to group sex with a number of men [she ‘fucks like a bunny-rabbit’].
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] ‘The boys have got a chop-up going.’ ‘What!? [...] You mean to tell me those clean-cut, country boys have got a bun in there?’. |
4. an attractive female who is ‘good enough to eat’.
| Fables in Sl. (1902) 59: She Allowed tht he was a Tooney-Wooney Iittle Bad Boy to hold his Itsy-Bitsy Bun of a Mabel so tight she could hardly breave. | |
| Alice in La-La Land (1999) 96: She’s a little bun, isn’t she? [...] A little bun. A honey bun. Little raisin eyes. Sweet icing lips. |
In phrases
(US) to have sexual intercourse.
| Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads III (LP) n.p.: This is number one / And I’m buttering her bun / Roll me over, lay me down, and do it again [HDAS]. | |
| National Lampoon Apr. 56: The Farmer’s Daughter Butters Her Bun or ‘A Roll in the Hay Beats a Turkey in the Straw’ [HDAS]. |
to touch one’s wife’s or girlfriend’s genital area for luck before leaving on a journey.
| Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Bun [...] To touch Bun for Luck; a practice in fashion among sailors going on a cruise. | |
| , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn) n.p.: To touch bun for luck; a practice observed among sailors going on a cruise. |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |