Bath bun

noun

A small, round baked good, having a bread-like consistency, topped with sugar or icing and sometimes small pieces of dried or candied fruit.

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Currant Bun
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Meanings

nounBath bun (plural Bath buns)

plural Bath buns · alternative bath bun

  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
proper nounthe Bath bun

alternative bath bun

  1. UKslangThe Sun.

    'Nice that the Bath bun's out today.'

    2015, Sid Finch, The Little Book of Cockney Rhyming Slang
    1 more example

    […] the old Bath Bun was simmering as he wrote it.

    1968, The British Journal of Photography, volume 115, page 3

    Synonyms: Currant Bun, currant bun

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounThe Sun.

Similar
Currant Buncurrant bun
Also see
currant bunsun

Origin

From the English city of Bath, where it originated.

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APA

Bath bun. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bath%20bun

MLA

“Bath bun.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bath%20bun. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Bath bun,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bath%20bun.

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