bubba
/ˈbʌbə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A working-class white male from the southern US, stereotyped as loutish.
name
The stereotypical white male; John Doe.
name
A nickname for a brother, usually the eldest brother and initially used only by young children before sometimes spreading to become a person's general adult nickname.
name
A personification of prison rape, especially as a righteous punishment.
American usage; Offensive
Example Sentences
- ""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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "Watch it, Bubba!"
- "[Bill] Clinton knew and maintained a lifelong affection for the small-town Arkansans world in which he had been reared—he relished being called Bubba—and delighted in opportunities that campaigning gave him to reconnect with places like it."
Etymology
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.