Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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name
The stereotypical white male; John Doe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US
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name
A generic nickname for any white male.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US
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name
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US
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name
A personification of prison rape, especially as a righteous punishment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, offensive
Topics: government, politics
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noun
Brother; used as term of familiar address.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US, childish
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noun
A working-class white male from the southern US, stereotyped as loutish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Alternative form of bubba (a white male Southerner).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, alt-of, alternative
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History
Capitalization 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.
