bubbe

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Alternative spellings 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Related terms 1.3.2 References

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Yiddish באָבע.

[edit] Alternative spellings

• bubbie
• bobbe
• bobeh
• bubby
• bube

[edit] Noun

bubbe (plural bubbes)

1. One's grandmother.
   • 1994: Steven C. Dubin, Arresting Images, p x.

     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.

   • 1996: Joan C. Hawxhurst, Bubbe & Gram: My Two Grandmothers, blurb

     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.

   • 1999: Linda Barnes, A Trouble of Fools, p1

     I never met my bubbe, my grandma, the source of all my mother's Yiddish proverbs ...

   • 2001: Elizabeth Sussman Nassau, Raisins and Almonds, in Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul (Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Dov Peretz Elkins, eds.), p238

     When I showed my bubbe, she said I had found a memory of the snake, and that memories were precious.

2. Any elderly woman.

[edit] Related terms

• bubbe-meise

[edit] References

• OED 2006