honey bun
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- noun
- /ˈhʌni bʌn/
- US
:
panecillo de miel
- It's still an option because if we were stranded on a deserted island and somebody left a box of honey buns, they're going to help us survive.
- eat a honey bun
It's still an option because if we were stranded on a deserted island and somebody left a box of honey buns, they're going to help us survive.
- It's still an option because if we were stranded on a deserted island and somebody left a box of honey buns, they're going to help us survive.
- Now, you may say, but Doctor Berry, I have stopped snacking on Doritos and Ding Dongs and honey buns and doughnuts.
- That's like, that honey bun was worth my whole hour.
Examples
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Now, you may say, but Doctor Berry, I have stopped snacking on Doritos and Ding Dongs and honey buns and doughnuts.
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I like honey buns as much as the next guy.
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Can I get them honey buns?
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BILL: Offer him a honey bun or something?
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What you got, a honey bun?
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Go to the liquor store and get me two honey buns and...
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During the 2007 deployment, Kris remembered grabbing a half-dozen sticky-sweet Honey Buns at a time, stuffing them into his assault pack for long days in a Humvee.
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I'm going home to eat a honey bun for dessert.
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For the 61 years Ann and Bill Howard have been married, he's brought her coffee and a honey bun in bed every morning.
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They had dinner from the vending machine: generic honey buns and Planters cashews.
Synonyms
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A small round bread roll that is plain or sweet
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A sweet rolled pastry baked with cinnamon and sugar, often with raisins
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A sweet baked roll covered in sticky sugar and often nuts
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A sweet baked roll of dough filled with cinnamon and sugar
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A small sweet bread made with yeast, often with cinnamon, nuts, or glaze
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A sweet sticky pastry made with honey or sugar eaten as a snack
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A sweet rolled pastry filled with sugar and nuts
A small sweet roll filled with sticky caramel and nuts
A sweet pull-apart pastry of baked dough pieces coated in butter, sugar and cinnamon
A sweet bun shaped like a bear's paw and often glazed
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Morphology
The compound 'honey bun' is a straightforward composition of 'honey' (sweet bee-produced substance) + 'bun' (small sweet roll), so its meaning as a sweet, honey-flavored pastry is directly derivable from the parts. This type of descriptive food compound is cross-linguistically common and follows normal English noun-noun compounding, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Honey bun comes from the simple image of a small bun topped with sticky honey or a sweet glaze, a name bakers used for this treat. So today honey bun means 'a sweet, sticky pastry'.