Bath bun

noun — 2 senses

Bath bun

noun

Etymology From the English city of Bath, where it originated.

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.

  • [H]e felt hungry, so he bought a bath bun and ate it while he strolled along.1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 103, in Of Human Bondage:
2

UK, Slang The Sun.

  • […] the old Bath Bun was simmering as he wrote it.1968, The British Journal of Photography, volume 115, page 3:
  • 'Nice that the Bath bun's out today.'2015, Sid Finch, The Little Book of Cockney Rhyming Slang:

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