The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue dates from 1811 and this is probably the only full, uncensored and searchable version of this dictionary on the internet. All the original crudities have been restored and it offers an interesting perspective on Common English from the time of the Regency and Jane Austen.

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Entries releated to BUN

 

BUN		A common name for a rabbit, also for the monosyllable. To touch bun for luck; a practice observed among sailors going on a cruize.
BUNDLING		A man and woman sleeping in the same bed, he with his small clothes, and she with her petticoats on; an expedient practised in America on a scarcity of beds, where, on such an occasion, husbands and parents frequently permitted travellers to bundle with their wives and daughters. This custom is now abolished. See Duke of Rochefoucalt's Travels in America.
BUNG		A brewer
BUNG UPWARDS		Said of a person lying on his face.
BUNG YOUR EYE		Drink a dram; strictly speaking, to drink till one's eye is bunged up or closed.
BUNT		An apron.
BUNTER		A low dirty prostitute, half whore and half beggar.
BUNTLINGS		Petticoats.
BUTTERED BUN		One lying with a woman that has just lain with another man, is said to have a buttered bun.
CARBUNCLE FACE		A red face, full of pimples.
COBBLE		To mend, or patch; likewise to do a thing in a bungling manner.
COCKNEY		A nick name given to the citizens of London, or persons born within the sound of Bow bell, derived from the following story: A citizen of London, being in the country, and hearing a horse neigh, exclaimed, Lord! how that horse laughs! A by-stander telling him that noise was called NEIGHING, the next morning, when the cock crowed, the citizen to shew he had not forgot what was told him, cried out, Do you hear how the COCK NEIGHS? The king of the cockneys is mentioned among the regulations for the sports and shows formerly held in the Middle Temple on Childermas Day, where he had his officers, a marshal, constable, butler, etc. See DUGDALE'S ORIGINES JURIDICIALES, p. 247. - Ray says, the interpretation of the word Cockney, is, a young person coaxed or conquered, made wanton; or a nestle cock, delicately bred and brought up, so as, when arrived a man's estate, to be unable to bear the least hardship. Whatever may be the origin of this appellation, we learn from the following verses, attributed to Hugh Bigot, Earl of Norfolk, that it was in use. in the time of king Henry II. Was I in my castle at Bungay, Fast by the river Waveney, I would not care for the king of Cockney; ie: the king of London.
DROMEDARY		A heavy, bungling thief or rogue. A purple dromedary; a bungler in the art and mystery of thieving.
FIB		To beat. Fib the cove's quarron in the rumpad for the lour in his bung; beat the fellow in the highway for the money in his purse. - A fib is also a tiny lie.
FILE, FILE CLOY, or BUNGNIPPER		A pick pocket. To file; to rob or cheat. The file, or bungnipper, goes generally in company with two assistants, the adam tiler, and another called the bulk or bulker, Whose business it is to jostle the person they intend to rob, and push him against the wall, while the file picks his pocket, and gives'the booty to the adam tiler, who scours off with it.
GROG-BLOSSOM		A carbuncle, or pimple in the face, caused by drinking.
KETCH		Jack Ketch; a general name for the finishers of the law, or hangmen, ever since the year 1682, when the office was filled by a famous practitioner of that name, of whom his wife said, that any bungler might put a man to death, but only her husband knew how to make a gentleman die sweetly.
MALMSEY NOSE		A red pimpled snout, rich in carbuncles and rubies.
NIP		A cheat. Bung nipper; a cutpurse.
QUEER BUNG		An empty purse.
RUM BOOZE		Wine, or any other good liquor. Rum boozing welts; bunches of grapes.
RUM BUNG		A full purse.
RUMFORD		To ride to Rumford to have one's backside new bottomed: i.e. to have a pair of new leather breeches. Rumford was formerly a famous place for leather breeches. A like saying is current in Norfolk and Suffolk, of Bungay, and for the same reason. - Rumford lion; a calf. See ESSEX LION.
TOUCH BUN FOR LUCK		See BUN.
UNFORTUNATE GENTLEMEN		The horse guards, who thus named themselves in Germany, where a general officer seeing them very awkward in bundling up their forage, asked what the devil they were; to which some of them answered, unfortunate gentlemen.