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Generic vs Bubba - What's the difference?

generic | bubba |

As nouns the difference between generic and bubba

is that generic is a product sold under a generic name while bubba is (us) (a white male southerner).

As an adjective generic

is very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific.

As a proper noun bubba is

(southern us) the stereotypical white male; john doe.

generic

English

(wikipedia generic)

Alternative forms

* generick

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific.
  • :* "...the essence is that such self-describing poets describe what is in them, but not peculiar to them, – what is generic , not what is special and individual." — Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
  • Lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise.
  • (of a product or drug) Not having a brand name.
  • (biology, not comparable) Of or relating to a taxonomic genus.
  • (grammar) Specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene.
    • Words like salesperson and firefighter are generic .
  • (computing) (Of program code) Written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
  • (geometry, of a point) Having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.

    • Synonyms

    * (comprehensive) general * (lacking a brand) unbranded

    Antonyms

    * (comprehensive) specific, proprietary * (lacking a brand) non-generic, proprietary, branded

    Derived terms

    * genericity * genericness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A product sold under a generic name
  • A wine that is a blend of several wines, or made from a blend of several grape varieties
  • (grammar) A term that specifies neither male nor female.
  • * 1998 , Jacqueline A. Dienemann, Nursing administration: managing patient care

    • Related terms

    * gender * genus

    bubba

    English

    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.

    • See also

    * brother, brotha * bro