Bath bun

English

Bath bun with a cup of tea

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

Further reading

• Bath bun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia