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    Bath bun
    noun
    a round, sweet bun, usually containing raisins, citron, etc.
  • bath bun
    bath bun
    noun
    a sweet bun containing spices and dried fruit

Bath bun

American  

noun

  1. a round, sweet bun, usually containing raisins, citron, etc.


bath bun British  

noun

  1. a sweet bun containing spices and dried fruit

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Bath bun

First recorded in 1795–1805

Example Sentences

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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 Walton, Amy

“Thanks, no,” said the baronet, changing his position, giving his hat a turn, and flourishing out the Bath bun, which fell upon the carpet before him.

From Lady Maude's Mania by Fenn, George Manville

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

The sausage roll, like the cup of chocolate, was soon followed by another; and a big Bath bun completed a debauch of which Dr. Bompas would undoubtedly have disapproved.

From The Camera Fiend by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

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 Moscheles, Felix

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