Bubby vs Tubby - What's the difference?
bubby | tubby |
(slang) A woman's breast.
* 1685 , (John Dryden), Sylvae :
* 2009 , Arlene Gorey, My Spanking Diary :
(childish) bub; bubba.
stout, rotund
Resembling a tub; sounding dull and without resonance or freedom of sound.
(pejorative, slang, often used teasingly) An overweight person.
As nouns the difference between bubby and tubby
is that bubby is a woman's breast while tubby is an overweight person.As an adjective tubby is
stout, rotund.bubby
English
Etymology 1
Perhaps from a dialectal (etyl) term .Oxford Dictionary of English'' (ISBN 0199571120) Some older references connected the word to (etyl) poupe, but this is considered "very doubtful" by the OED.As early as the 1887 edition (''A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles'') it has said of ''bubby'' "Cf. Ger. ''bübbi'' teat (Grimm). Connexion with F. ''poupe'' teat of an animal (formerly also of a woman), Pr. ''popa'', It. ''poppa teat, is very doubtful."Noun
(bubbies)- Chlo: What do you mean (uncivil as you are) / To touch my brea?ts and leave my bo?ome bare? / Daph: The?e pretty bubbies fir?t I make my own.
- Mr. Douglas got up from the couch, shucked down his pants, and then knelt down beside my mother. He reached out and grabbed her big round bubbies , and began to squeeze and play with them, while he teased her by prodding his cock against her red behind.
Etymology 2
Probably from brother, as pronounced by young children who are not yet able to properly pronounce its complex consonants, but note similar terms in other Germanic languages derived from Proto-Germanic ''. Also, compare ''sissy .Noun
(bubbies)Etymology 3
Variant spelling. (From (etyl).)Noun
(head)References
tubby
English
Adjective
(er)- a tubby violin
