From en.wiktionary.org:
[Bubba]
** English
*** Etymology
Possibly an alteration of [en] or [en], said by a young child not yet able to
pronounce _brother_ properly, but note similar terms in other Germanic
languages derived from [gem-pro], [gem-pro], such as [fy], [de], dialectal
[sv], [en], [nl], [gml], and [is]. Also compare [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] Brother; [used as term of familiar address] .
2. * [en]
3. A working-class white male from the southern US , stereotyped as loutish .
4. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=February 13, 2009 | author=Ginia Bellafante | title=A Pitcher’s Life After the Third Strike | work=New York Times | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/arts/television/13east.html
|passage=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.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2011 | author=w:Steven Pinker | title=The Better Angels of Our Nature | page=120 | publisher=Penguin | year_published=2012
|passage=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.}}
**** Derived terms
- [en]
*** See also
- [en] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
[en]
** Scots
*** Alternative forms
- [sco]
*** Pronunciation
- [sco]
*** Noun
[sco-noun] [sco]
1. grandfather
2. the devil
*** References
- [9]
- [pos=n]