currant bun

British  

noun

1. a sweet bun containing currants

2. another name for black bun

3. slang:rhyming son

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Example Sentences

Shahrzad is a scrap of a girl, with round currant bun eyes, heavy brows and a wild Afro-style mop of hair, but she is also a reincarnation of her famous precursor, Scheherazade.

From New York Times

"But I can cook a very competitive currant bun so phew," Beckinsale added.

From Fox News

The more general view, however, was that an atom was more like a currant bun or a plum pudding: a dense, solid object that carried a positive charge but that was studded with negatively charged electrons, like the currants in a currant bun.

From Literature

Action on Sugar suggests swapping cakes or biscuits for an alternative with less sugar, such as a currant bun or scone.

From The Guardian

Photograph: Bettmann/CORBIS Russell Brand declared in an interview in the Guardian on 4 February that he had had it with the currant bun.

From The Guardian