Sunday, October 26, 2003

Clutton GIG

yesterday I was at the BUNFIGHT

and enjoyed meeting Ian and Josephine Jeremiah and all the others.

who "got me" last´year The Clutton Do 2: "The second 'bunfight' at the Warwick Arms, Clutton,
7th. September 2002 "


and this Hugh Watkins was sitting by Colin Alsbury, Anne Welch and John Parfitt : "The Clutton Bunfight 3
25/10/2003"

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RootsWeb: Bristol_and_Somerset-L Meaning of "bunfight": "Subject: Meaning of 'bunfight'
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 11:52:45 -0600

From OED:


bun; hence bun-faced a. (also fig.); bun-fight, a jocular expression for
a tea-party (cf. tea-fight);
bun foot, of furniture (see quot. 1952);
bun-loaf (Lanc. and Yorks.), rich currant-bread; bun-penny [sense 1b], a
penny showing the head of Queen Victoria with her hair worn in a bun;
bun-struggle, -worry = bun-fight."


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