nounA term of familiar address; bubba; bubby. · A young brother; a little boy; a familiar term of address for a small boy.
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryEither a corruption of brother, a modification of bud, or a borrowing from Pennsylvania German Bub or Southern German Bub (as was spoken in various communities in America before the early 20th century), ultimately thought to be derived from Proto-Germanic *bō- (“close [male] relation”) and thus cognate to English boy and babe.
Other probable cognates
West Frisian bobbe, German Bube (“boy”), dialectal Swedish babbe (“little boy”), English babe, baby, and bully, Dutch boef (“mischievous lad, rascal”), Middle Low German bôve, and Icelandic bófi.
Relationships mentioned by the source
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- Borrowed-form mentionBubpdc
- Derivation mentionBubde
- Derivation mention*bō-gem-pro · close [male] relation
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