Associations to the word «Bunyan»

Wiktionary

BUNYAN, proper noun. An English surname; a nickname for someone with a hump or lump.
BUNYAN, proper noun. John Bunyan, English preacher and writer.

Dictionary definition

BUNYAN, noun. English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688).
BUNYAN, noun. A legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada; "Paul Bunyan had a blue ox named Babe"; "the lakes of Minnesota began when Paul Bunyan and Babe's footprints filled with water".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats