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Bun vs Crutch - What's the difference?

bun | crutch |

As verbs the difference between bun and crutch

is that bun is to be while crutch is to support on crutches; to prop up.

As a noun crutch is

a device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.

bun

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (hairstyle) French roll

    Derived terms

    * bun fight * bun stock * Chelsea bun * currant bun * have a bun in the oven * hot cross bun

    Verb

    (bunn)
  • (UK, slang) To smoke cannabis.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    crutch

    English

    (wikipedia crutch)

    Noun

    (crutches)
  • A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.
    • He walked on crutches for a month until the cast was removed from his leg.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll lean upon one crutch , and fight with the other.
  • Something that supports, often used negatively to indicate that it is not needed and causes an unhealthful dependency; a prop
    • Alcohol became a crutch to help him through the long nights; eventually it killed him.
  • * H. Smith
    • Rhyme is a crutch that lifts the weak alone.
  • A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk.
  • A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.
  • (nautical) A knee, or piece of knee timber.
  • (nautical) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch.

    • Verb

  • To support on crutches; to prop up.
  • * Two fools that crutch their feeble sense on verse. — Dryden.
  • To shear the hindquarters of a sheep; to dag.
  • * After learning how to crutch at 13, he could dag 400 sheep in a day by the spring of 1965 and earned himself more than just a bit of pocket money.'' — 2010 January 29, Emma Partridge, Stock Journal, ''Richie Foster a cut above the rest ,