buns

See also: Buns

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʌnz/
• Rhymes: -ʌnz

• Audio (US):

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Noun

buns

1. plural of bun
2. (Canada, US, euphemistic, childish) The buttocks.
   • 1986 July 22, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):

     Here I am freezing my buns off at 9 in the morning, about to jump into ice water and drown.

   • c. 2013, It's Not Complicated: Treehouse Commercial‎^[1]:

     host (Beck Bennett): Why do you not want a smaller treehouse?
     boy: Because it wouldnt be able to fit a flat-screen TV and then the TV would be about this big and you would have to hold the wire and the position you would hold the wire you wouldn't be able to see the TV.
     host: That's a pain in the buns.

Derived terms

• space buns
• work one's buns off

Adjective

buns (not comparable)

1. (slang) Of low quality; bad.

Anagrams

• nubs, snub

Old French

Adjective

buns m

1. inflection of bun:
   1. masculine nominative singular
   2. masculine oblique plural