honey bun

plural honey buns · alternative honey-bun · alternative honeybun

1. A glazed fried yeast pastry with honey and cinnamon in the dough.
2. colloquialHoney; sweetheart (term of endearment).

   “Oh come off it, honey bun. You know me. I never did the ordinary.” / “Don’t call me honey bun,” said Mum. “I don’t need any of your Americanisms in this house, thank you very much.”

   2015, Joy Cowley, chapter 13, in The Bakehouse, Wellington: Gecko Press, →ISBN, page 101