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."

Noun

(en noun)

(Southern US, childish) Brother; (used as term of familiar address).

*

A working-class white male from the southern US (stereotyped as loutish).

* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 13, author=Ginia Bellafante, title=A Pitcher’s Life After the Third Strike, work=New York Times citation

, passage=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.}}

*2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, page 120:

*: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.