Bun vs. Nun — What's the Difference?

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 nun is a member of a religious community of women, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery. Communities of nuns exist in numerous religious traditions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, and Taoism.

A small cake, typically containing dried fruit

A member of a religious community of women, typically one living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

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

Any of a number of birds whose plumage resembles a nun's habit, especially an Asian mannikin.

A person's buttocks.

A woman who belongs to a religious order or congregation devoted to active service or meditation, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

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

The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. See Table at alphabet.

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

A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, those living together in a cloister.

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

(by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions.

A drunken spree.

A prostitute.

A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced.

A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.

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

The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

A cupcake.

A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

A drunken spree.

A white variety of domestic pigeons having a veil of feathers covering the head.

(Internet slang) A newbie.

The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding in pronunciation to n.

A buttock.

The 25th letter of the Arabic alphabet, corresponding in pronunciation to n.

(slang) The vagina.

A woman religious

A rabbit.

A buoy resembling a cone

A squirrel.

The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

The scut or tail of a hare.

A dry stalk.

Marijuana cigarette, joint

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

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

To smoke cannabis.

To shoot.

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.

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

The buttocks.

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

Small rounded bread either plain or sweet