Bath bun

American  

noun

1. a round, sweet bun, usually containing raisins, citron, etc.

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bath bun British  

noun

1. a sweet bun containing spices and dried fruit

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Etymology

Origin of Bath bun

First recorded in 1795–1805

Example Sentences

A Bath bun was accordingly bought, carried home, and put carefully away in the doll's house.

From The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories by Walton, Amy

Why, I shall only want a Bath bun and a glass of milk every day.

From Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

Brioche.—A sort of light cake, rather like Bath bun, but not sweet, having as much salt as sugar in it.

From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886 by Peters, Charles

By four o'clock there was I sitting outside that confectioner's, wearing enough pennies to buy the shop out, and yet not a Bath bun to the good!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914 by Various

He trained me just once too often, but that was in London, in a shop near Oxford Circus, and it was a Bath bun that made me restless.

From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix