Bath bun

English

Alternative forms

  • bath bun

Etymology

From the English city of Bath, where it originated.

Noun

Bath bun (plural Bath buns)

  1. A small, round baked good, having a bread-like consistency, topped with sugar or icing and sometimes small pieces of dried or candied fruit.
    • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 103, in Of Human Bondage:
      [H]e felt hungry, so he bought a bath bun and ate it while he strolled along.
  2. (UK, rhyming slang) The sun.
    Synonym: Currant Bun
    • 1968, The British Journal of Photography, volume 115, page 3:
      […] the old Bath Bun was simmering as he wrote it.
    • 2015, Sid Finch, The Little Book of Cockney Rhyming Slang:
      'Nice that the Bath bun's out today.'

References

  • (sun): Tony Thorne (2014) “Bath bun”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury

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