or bun, subs. (common).—1.  a rabbit (B. E.).

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  1900.  KIPLING, Stalky & Co., 71. ‘This is pifling’, said McTurk. ‘Let’s get our sallies, and go and shoot BUNNIES.’

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  2.  (old).—An endearment: of women and children.

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  3.  (venery).—The female pudendum: i.e., coney (CUNNY; CUNT, q.v.): see MONOSYLLABLE.

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  c. 1720.  Old Song [D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy (1720), vi. 324].

        Old musty Maids that have Money,
  Although no Teeth in their Heads;
May have a Bit for their BUNNY,
  To pleasure them in their Beds.

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