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BubEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Borrowed from German Bub.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bubEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Probably imitative of the sound of drinking.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bubEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Contraction of bubby.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bubEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Either 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.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bubEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
Perhaps from Northern dialectal English bab, from Middle English bab, a variant of babe (“babe, baby”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bubEnglish (en) · Etymology 5Source text
Shortened from bubble and bubbly.
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