• bath bun

From the English city ofBath, where it originated.

Bathbun (pluralBath 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, inOf Human Bondage:

     [H]e felt hungry, so he bought abath bun and ate it while he strolled along.

2. (UK, rhyming slang) Thesun.

   Synonym:Currant Bun

   • 1968,The British Journal of Photography, volume115, page 3:

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

   • 2015, Sid Finch,The Little Book of Cockney Rhyming Slang:

     'Nice that theBath bun's out today.'

• (sun):Tony Thorne (2014), “Bath bun”, inDictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London; […]:Bloomsbury

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