bun

• n. 小圓麵包
• 屁股
• 圓髻

擬聲詞，原指頭上被敲出的腫塊。後詞義戲劇般的指代各種圓形小物體。如小麵包，圓發髻，屁股，兔子等。

bun

bun: [14] The word bun first crops up in 1371, in an Anglo-Latin document relating to different types of bread. Its origins, however, are completely shrouded in mystery. Equally obscure, but presumably unrelated, is another word bun, which in the 16th century meant ‘squirrel’. By the 19th century we find it being used for ‘rabbit’, and it survives in its familiar form bunny.

bun (n.)

late 14c., origin obscure, perhaps from Old French buignete "a fritter," originally "boil, swelling," diminutive of buigne "swelling from a blow, bump on the head," from a Germanic source (compare Middle High German bunge "clod, lump"), or from Gaulish *bunia (compare Gaelic bonnach). Spanish buñelo "a fritter" apparently is from the same source. Of hair coiled at the back of the head, first attested 1894. To have a bun in the oven "be pregnant" is from 1951.

The first record of buns in the sense of "male buttocks" is from 1960s, perhaps from a perceived similarity; but bun also meant "tail of a hare" (1530s) in Scottish and northern England dialect and was transferred to human beings (and conveniently rhymed with nun in ribald ballads). This may be an entirely different word; OED points to Gaelic bun "stump, root."

1. She had pale thin yellow hair she pulled back into a bun.

她把一頭稀疏的淺黃色頭發向後梳，挽成了個圓髻。

來自柯林斯例句

2. She was sitting at the kitchen table eating a currant bun.

她正坐在餐桌旁，吃著葡萄幹圓麵包。

來自柯林斯例句

3. You cannot eat a bun in one bite.

你不能一口吃下一個麵包。

來自柯林斯例句

4. She wore her hair in a bun.

她盤了個發髻。

來自《權威詞典》

5. John, I've something to tell you. I've a bun in the oven.

約翰, 我有事要告訴你, 我有喜了.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》