Bagel vs Bun - What's the difference?
bagel | bun |
A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
(tennis, slang) A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).
* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=January 30
, author=Piers Newbery
, title=Australian Open: Djokovic too good for Murray in final
, work=BBC
(slang, among South African Jews) An overly materialistic and excessively groomed young man.
A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced.
A tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head.
(Ireland) A cupcake.
(slang, British) A drunken spree.
(Internet, slang) A newbie.
(dialect, obsolete) A squirrel or rabbit.
(UK, slang) To smoke cannabis.
As a noun bagel
is bagel (toroidal bread roll).As a verb bun is
to be.bagel
English
Alternative forms
* beigel (UK)Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=The Scot, who had been close to a two-set deficit in his semi-final against David Ferrer, avoided the dreaded bagel by seeing off a set point at 5-0 down before finally breaking the Djokovic serve to love as he began to go for his shots with the set seemingly gone. }}
