Bum vs. Bun — What's the Difference?

A tramp; a vagrant.

A bun is a small, sometimes sweet, bread-based item or roll. Though they come in many shapes and sizes, they are most commonly hand-sized or smaller, with a round top and flat bottom.

A lazy or shiftless person, especially one who seeks to live solely by the support of others.

A small cake, typically containing dried fruit

An incompetent, insignificant, or obnoxious person

A hairstyle in which the hair is drawn back into a tight coil at the back of the head.

One who spends a lot of time doing a particular recreational activity

A person's buttocks.

The buttocks.

An unsweetened round or oblong roll, used especially to hold a hamburger patty or a hot dog.

To live by begging and scavenging from place to place. Often used with around.

A small sweetened roll, often spiced or containing dried fruit.

To pass time idly; loaf. Often used with around.

A tight roll of hair worn at the back or the top of the head.

(Informal) To be depressed, disheartened, or dismayed

A drunken spree.

To acquire by begging; cadge.

A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced.

(Informal) To depress, dishearten, or dismay. Often used with out.

A tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head.

Inferior; worthless

A cupcake.

Disabled; malfunctioning

A drunken spree.

Unfavorable or unfair

(Internet slang) A newbie.

Unpleasant; lousy

A buttock.

The buttocks.

(slang) The vagina.

The anus.

A rabbit.

A homeless person, usually a man.

A squirrel.

A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.

The scut or tail of a hare.

A player or racer who often performs poorly.

A dry stalk.

(colloquial) A drinking spree.

Marijuana cigarette, joint

(dated) A humming noise.

A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3{{nbsp}}cm.

(obsolete) A bumbailiff.

(transitive) To form (the hair) into a bun.

To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.

To smoke cannabis.

To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.

To shoot.

To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond.

Any of a variety of slightly sweetened or plain raised cakes or bisquits, often having a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust; as, a hot cross bun.

To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).

A type of coiffure in which the hair is gathered into a coil or knot at the top of the head.

To depress; to make unhappy.

The buttocks.

(intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.

Same as blood urea nitrogen; the concentration of nitrogen in blood present in the form of urea; - used as a measure of kidney function.

(UK) An expression of annoyance.

Small rounded bread either plain or sweet

Of poor quality or highly undesirable.

Unfair.

Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.

Unpleasant or unhappy.

The buttock.

A humming noise.

To make murmuring or humming sound.

To borrow without intention of returning; to cadge; as, to bum a cigarette; to bum a cup of coffee; - usually with inexpensive items as the object.

A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible;

A disreputable vagrant;

Person who does no work;

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on;

Ask for and get free; be a parasite

Be lazy or idle;

Of very poor quality