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a humble carbohydrate hug, equally at home around a burger or a hairdo
means A small, soft, rounded bread roll — or, by way of its shape, a tight coil of hair gathered at the back of the head.
from English has used 'bun' for a small loaf since the late Middle Ages, but where it came from is genuinely murky. One favourite suggestion links it to the Old French 'bugne,' meaning a swelling or bump — fitting for something that puffs up as it bakes — though scholars treat this as plausible rather than proven. The hairstyle sense is much later, borrowing the bread's plump, rounded look to describe a knot of coiled hair.
- hair origin
- named for shape, the hairstyle borrowed the word
- sweet history
- hot cross buns date back to medieval England
- javascript runtime
- Bun is a fast JS toolkit and runtime
- rabbit nickname
- bunny shortens from bun, an old word for rabbit
chelsea bun — sweet pastry from chelsea, london, made since the 17th century with dried fruit and cinnamon
singapore bun — steamed bun with curry chicken filling, staple of singapore hawker stalls
japanese cream pan — bun filled with custard cream, popularized in japan in the 1960s