bunhead

Etymology

From bun (“a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head”) + head.

bunhead means An obsessive or extremely dedicated ballerina. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.

noun

An obsessive or extremely dedicated ballerina.“A bunhead who must have strayed from her New York City Ballet aspirations glanced furtively about the room, […]”