subs. phr. (old).—A prostitute: spec. as in quots.: see TART.

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  1679.  CULLEN, W., Flock of Court Misses, in Roxburghe Ballads (1884), V., 126. This is the day … that sets our Monarch free From BUTTERED BUNS [i.e., Louise de Quérouaille] and Slavery.

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  c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. BUTTER’D BUN, Lying with a Woman that has been just Layn with by another Man.

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  1772.  BRIDGES, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, 180.

        Two pretty lads, old Priam’s sons,
Both very fond of BUTTER’D BUNS.

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  1811.  GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum. One lying with a woman that has just lain with another man, is said to have a BUTTERED BUN.

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