Bun vs. Pun — 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.

The pun, also known as paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or figurative language.

A small cake, typically containing dried fruit

A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.

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

To make puns or a pun.

A person's buttocks.

(transitive) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.

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

(intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.

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

A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.

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

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A drunken spree.

To pound.

A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced.

To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to quibble.

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

To persuade or affect by a pun.

A cupcake.

A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation.

A drunken spree.

A humorous play on words;

(Internet slang) A newbie.

Make a play on words;

A buttock.

(slang) The vagina.

A rabbit.

A squirrel.

The scut or tail of a hare.

A dry stalk.

Marijuana cigarette, joint

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(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