honey-bun
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of honey bun.
Example Sentences
- "Please don’t be mad at me, honey-bun. I’ll get over this after a while. I’ll do better."
- "He called on me formally during my first week and stayed to tea; he ate a very heavy meal of honey-buns, anchovy toast and Fuller’s walnut cake, […]"
- "Oh, Luther, you really are a honey-bun! These beautiful flowers! I needed someone to think of me tonight. I appreciate it, Luther—you don’t know how much."
- "“I’ll tell you what’s good, Mrs. Threadgoode, are those frozen honey-buns.” / “Honey-buns?” / “Yes. They’re like cinnamon buns. You know.”"
- "They kneaded dough and baked cakes and biscuits and sweet honey-buns with nuts and almonds."
- "‘But I’m not special like Dad and you,’ I finally said. ‘I’m just ordinary.’ / ‘Oh, honey-bun,’ Mum said, brushing the hair away from my face. ‘Being small was the least interesting, the least amazing thing about your dad.[…]’"