bubba

Pronunciation: /ˈbʌbə/

The English word “bubba” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

Brother; used as term of familiar address.
A working-class white male from the southern US, stereotyped as loutish.

Etymology

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…

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