Mel vs Bubba - What's the difference?
mel | bubba |
(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
, 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.
As nouns the difference between mel and bubba
is that mel is apple (fruit) while bubba is (us) (a white male southerner).As a proper noun bubba is
(southern us) the stereotypical white male; john doe.bubba
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