Definitions
Informal term for a brother or familiar male friend.
Word origin
Possibly an alteration of brother or bub, said by a young child not yet able to pronounce brother properly, but note similar terms in other Germanic languages derived from Proto-Germanic *bō-, *bō-, such as West Frisian bobbe, German Bube (“boy”), dialectal Swedish babbe (“little boy”), English babe, Dutch boef (“mischievous lad, rascal”), Middle Low German bōve, and Icelandic bófi. Also compare sissy.
Used in a sentence
“"Hey, bubba, is that really you? Goddamn. I haven't heard from you in a coon's age." / "Don't 'hey, bubba' me, you sonofabitch.”
“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.”
“German businesses wonder what Otto Normalverbraucher will buy, while US politicians fret over who Bubba will vote for in the next US election.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Familiar brother name”5 letters
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