honey bun

See also: honey-bun and honeybun

English

Commercially-prepared honey buns (sense 1)

Alternative forms

• honey-bun, honeybun

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Noun

honey bun (plural honey buns)

1. A glazed fried yeast pastry with honey and cinnamon in the dough.
2. (colloquial) Honey; sweetheart (term of endearment).
   • 2015, Joy Cowley, chapter 13, in The Bakehouse, Wellington: Gecko Press, →ISBN, page 101:

     “Oh come off it, honey bun. You know me. I never did the ordinary.” / “Don’t call me honey bun,” said Mum. “I don’t need any of your Americanisms in this house, thank you very much.”