bubba
/ˈbʌbə/
bubba noun: brother; used as term of familiar address.
Noun (1)
bubba (plural bubbas)
- Brother; used as term of familiar address.
- "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.2007, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Low Red Moon, page 27
- A working-class white male from the southern US, stereotyped as loutish.
- 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.2009 February 13, Ginia Bellafante, “A Pitcher’s Life After the Third Strike”, in New York Times
- 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.2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 120
Proper noun capitalized: Bubba
Bubba
- The stereotypical white male; John Doe.
- German businesses wonder what Otto Normalverbraucher will buy, while US politicians fret over who Bubba will vote for in the next US election.
- A generic nickname for any white male.
- 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.2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 5, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part II. The Neoliberal Order, 1970–2020
- 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.
- A personification of prison rape, especially as a righteous punishment.
- Amato is quoted in the order as telling him he was setting himself up “to be Bubba’s new best girlfriend at the state penitentiary.”2022 July 9, Sara Jean Green, “King County judge admonished for implying defendant would be raped in prison”, in The Seattle Times, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2022
- If you put hands on an ICE officer, you should be prosecuted, get sent to jail, and get to spend some quality time with Bubba.2025 July 16, John Kennedy, Twitter, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2025
Noun (2) capitalized: Bubba
Bubba (plural Bubbas)
- Alternative form of bubba (a white male Southerner).
bubba meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam
bubba in Urdu
- ببہ
bubba in Bengali
- বুব্বা
bubba in Telugu
- బుబ్బా
bubba in Malayalam
- ബബ്ബ
More languagesFewer languages
- bubba in Kannada
- ಬುಬ್ಬಾ
Forms of bubba
| plural | bubbas |
|---|---|
| plural | Bubbas |
Origin of bubba
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.
Capitalization of bubba.
Words formed from bubba
Phrases with bubba
Questions about bubba
- What does bubba mean?
- Bubba means brother; used as term of familiar address.
- What is bubba in Urdu?
- Bubba in Urdu is ببہ. See Bubba meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is bubba?
- Bubba can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bubba?
- Bubba is pronounced /ˈbʌbə/.
- What is the plural of bubba?
- The plural of bubba is bubbas.
Words near bubba in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bubba (page history and authors); Bubba (page history and authors); bubba (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bubba (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bubba (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bubba (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bubba (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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