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Bubbe - What does it mean?

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bubbe

English

Alternative forms

* bubbie * bobbe * bobeh * bubby * bube

Noun

(en noun)
  • One's grandmother.
  • * 1994 : Steven C. Dubin, Arresting Images , p x.
  • My bubbe' s inability to write in English turned out to be a blessing: she pressed me into service as her scribe at an early age.
  • * 1996': Joan C. Hawxhurst, '''''Bubbe & Gram: My Two Grandmothers , blurb
  • A little girl describes the various things she does with her Jewish grandmother, Bubbe , and her Christian grandmother, Gram, and what she has learned about both.
  • * 1999 : Linda Barnes, A Trouble of Fools , p1
  • I never met my bubbe , my grandma, the source of all my mother's Yiddish proverbs ...
  • * 2001 : Elizabeth Sussman Nassau, Raisins and Almonds'', in ''Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul (Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Dov Peretz Elkins, eds.), p238
  • When I showed my bubbe , she said I had found a memory of the snake, and that memories were precious.
  • Any elderly woman.
  • * 1979 Stephen Longstreet, The Dream Seekers , ISBN 0523405014, page 174:
  • "You heard the bubbe ," said Josie. "There isn't any. You act up and cry and I'll give you the back of my hand."

    See also

    * zayde

    References

    * OED 2006

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.