Bath bun
noun
a round, sweet bun, usually containing raisins, citron, etc.
Bath bun
Americannoun
bath bun
British
noun
Etymology
Origin of Bath bun
First recorded in 1795–1805
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By four o'clock there was I sitting outside that confectioner's, wearing enough pennies to buy the shop out, and yet not a Bath bun to the good!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914 by Various
Why, I shall only want a Bath bun and a glass of milk every day.
From Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various
A Bath bun was accordingly bought, carried home, and put carefully away in the doll's house.
From The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories by Amy Walton
One day she fancied a Bath bun; sent the new maid to the pastry-cook's.
From A Simpleton by Charles Reade
He trained me just once too often, but that was in London, in a shop near Oxford Circus, and it was a Bath bun that made me restless.
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Felix Moscheles
And there, struggling in the grip of a constable, who had laid strong hands upon him, stood Dollops with a kit-bag in one hand and a half-devoured bath bun in the other.
From Cleek, the Master Detective by Thomas W. Hanshew
The last he found unmarketable; the pipe, I think, he made merchandise of, but somehow his provender for the day’s journey consisted in one bath bun, which he could not finish.
From Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang
“No; he means a bath bun and a glass of milk,” laughed Marjorie, smiling up at the lady’s face.
From Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo by G. E. (George Edward) Farrow
I cannot even cheer myself with an ancient bath bun, a glass of cloudy beer, or two penny-worth of acidulated drops.
From Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse by Various
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