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 - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne