bubba

nounattested in dialogue

//ˈbʌbə//

Brother; used as term of familiar address.

noun

1
Brother; used as term of familiar address.
"Hey, bubba, is that really you? Goddamn. I haven't heard from you in a coon's age." / "Don't 'hey, bubba' me, you sonofabitch.
2
A working-class white male from the southern US, stereotyped as loutish.
Will Ferrell and his creative partner, the writer and director Adam McKay, are, let’s face it, our national poets on the subject of dimwitted, bubba arrogance and the redemptive powers of failure, their poems seemingly conceived in a midnight frenzy of brilliance on the back of a bag of Doritos.
Their subjects were not bubbas from the bayous but affluent students at the University of Michigan who had lived in the South for at least six years.

Etymology

Possibly an alteration of brother or bub, said by a young child not yet able to pronounce brother properly, but note similar terms in other Germanic languages derived from Proto-Germanic *bō-, *bō-, such as West Frisian bobbe, German Bube (“boy”), dialectal Swedish babbe (“little boy”), English babe, Dutch boef (“mischievous lad, rascal”), Middle Low German bōve, and Icelandic bófi. Also compare sissy.

Forms

plural: bubbas

Bryce · A male given name from the Celtic languages, variant of Brice.bub · A woman's breast.Bub · A surname from German.

bubba · Brother; used as term of familiar address.

Bubba · The stereotypical white male; John Doe.bubble · A spherically contained volume of air or other gas in a…bubbles · Sparkling wine; champagne.

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