Bubber vs Bubbe - What's the difference?
bubber | bubbe |
(archaic) A person who steals plate from public houses.
(archaic) A drinking bowl.
(archaic) a very good drinker.
One's grandmother.
* 1994 : Steven C. Dubin, Arresting Images , p x.
* 1996': Joan C. Hawxhurst, '''''Bubbe & Gram: My Two Grandmothers , blurb
* 1999 : Linda Barnes, A Trouble of Fools , p1
* 2001 : Elizabeth Sussman Nassau, Raisins and Almonds'', in ''Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul (Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Dov Peretz Elkins, eds.), p238
Any elderly woman.
* 1979 Stephen Longstreet, The Dream Seekers , ISBN 0523405014, page 174:
As nouns the difference between bubber and bubbe
is that bubber is (archaic) a person who steals plate from public houses while bubbe is one's grandmother.bubber
English
Noun
(en noun)References
*BUBBER'', ''Dictionary of Thieving Slang , 1737.
bubbe
English
Alternative forms
* bubbie * bobbe * bobeh * bubby * bubeNoun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.
- I never met my bubbe , my grandma, the source of all my mother's Yiddish proverbs ...
- When I showed my bubbe , she said I had found a memory of the snake, and that memories were precious.
- "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."