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hubby

/ˈhʌbi/

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Ireland/ˈhʊbi/

hubby noun: husband.

Noun

hubby (plural hubbies)

  1. (endearing, informal) Husband.
    • Laura thought Jack was the most wonderful hubby in the world.
    • “But they have done more than talk — they have written — written to my hubby — I'm sure of it,” said the Man's Wife, and she pulled a letter from her husband out of her saddle-pocket and gave it to the Tertium Quid.1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 50
    Synonyms:
    hubbyman

Adjective

hubby (comparative hubbier, superlative hubbiest)

  1. (US) Full of hubs or protuberances.
    • A road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby.

hubby meaning in Tamil, Punjabi and Vietnamese

hubby in Tamil

கணவன்

hubby in Punjabi

ਹੱਬੀ

hubby in Vietnamese

husband
ông xã

Synonyms of hubby

Forms of hubby

Noun
pluralhubbies
Adjective
comparativehubbier
superlativehubbiest

Origin of hubby

Diminutive of husband + -y.

From hub + -y (adjectival suffix).

Words formed from hubby

Words that rhyme with hubby

4 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about hubby

What does hubby mean?
Hubby means husband.
What is hubby in Tamil?
Hubby in Tamil is கணவன். See Hubby meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hubby?
Hubby can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce hubby?
Hubby is pronounced /ˈhʌbi/.
What is the plural of hubby?
The plural of hubby is hubbies.

Words near hubby in the dictionary

  1. hubbubed
  2. hubbubing
  3. hubbuboo
  4. hubbuboos
  5. hubbubs
  6. hubby
  7. hubbyman
  8. hubcap
  9. hubcapped
  10. hubcaps
  11. Hubei

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hubby (page history and authors); hubby (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hubby (Punjabi, 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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