Zayde vs Bubbe - What's the difference?
zayde | bubbe |
grandfather
* 1974 , Fran Ross, Oreo ISBN 9780914870005 page 207:
elderly man (as a term of respect)
* 3 November 1975 , John Simon, review of Lies My Father Told Me'', ''New York Magazine page 74:
* 1997 , Susan Berrin, A Heart of Wisdom ISBN 9781879045736 page 200:
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 zayde and bubbe
is that zayde is grandfather while bubbe is one's grandmother.zayde
English
Alternative forms
* zeidy, zaydeh, zeidiNoun
(en noun)- Perhaps, in these circumstances, he would greet his granddaughter as a zayde should, with love and affection.
- The zayde is, as the hoary formula demands, gruff on the outside but wonderful to his horse and David...
- To many people, the phrase "Jewish elderly" still conjures up images of bearded zaydes'' with ''yarmulkes ...
References
* OED 2006bubbe
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."
