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bun fight

noun

Etymology

From bun + fight, alluding to people fighting at mealtime.

  1. derived from *peḱ-✻
  2. inherited from *fehtaną✻
  3. inherited from *fehtan✻
  4. inherited from feohtan
  5. inherited from fighten
  6. compounded as bun fight — “bun + fight”

Definitions

  1. A debate or disagreement, usually with several parties involved, often political in…

    A debate or disagreement, usually with several parties involved, often political in nature.

    • "Our interest in the thing is all lackadaisical, a kind of bun-fight of pet notions. There's no real steam."
    • [O]ne of the big new hits on the Web is a silly, two-minute satire of the current Republican-Democrat bun fight, starring President Bush and Senator John Kerry as animated cutout figures.
    • The debate over public service funding turned into a bun fight, says the communications minister.

  2. A formal tea party or other social gathering, especially one at which food is served.

    • ... a party - afternoon bunfight, you know. A lot of young men in long frock-coats glued to the door-posts, so limp, poor things, and all the women drinking tea by themselves and longing for the young men.
    • [T]he cineastes […] will descend on that shabby little seaside town in the south of France for the 50th Cannes bun fight.
    • "Most people don't bother to go to those big ‘bun fight’ receptions anymore," said the spouse of an administration official.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA