Crossword clues for bubba
bubba
- Clinton nickname
- Watson of the PGA
- Two-time Masters champion Watson
- Stereotypical southerner
- Stereotypical good ol' boy
- Smith of football
- Nickname of Bill Clinton
- Nickname for Bill Clinton
- Forrest's army buddy
- Forrest Gump's shrimp-loving pal
- Forrest Gump's army pal
- Forrest Gump's army buddy
- Forrest Gump pal
- Dubya preceder
- Dixie nickname
- 2012 Masters champ Watson
- ___ Gump Shrimp Co
- __ Gump Shrimp Co.: restaurant chain
- Good old boy?
- Good ole boy
- Good ol' boy's nickname
- 42nd president, informally
- Nickname for a good ol' boy
- Stereotypical Dixie dweller
- ___ Smith of N.F.L. fame
- Golfer Watson
- Two-time Masters champ Watson
- Forrest Gump's friend
- Clinton's nickname
- Southern nickname
- Good ol' boy
- Late NFL star and "Police Academy" actor Smith
- Friend of Forrest Gump
- Forrest's shrimp-loving friend
- Forrest Gump's Army friend
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Southern U.S. slang, 1860s, a corruption of brother.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Southern US childish English) Brother; (non-gloss definition: used as term of familiar address). 2 A working-class white male from the South (qualifier: stereotyped as loutish).
Wikipedia
In American usage, "bubba" is a relationship nickname formed from "brother" and given to boys, especially eldest male siblings, to indicate their role in a family. For some boys and men, bubba is used so pervasively that it replaces the given name. The nickname may also be used outside the family by friends as a term of endearment.
The linguist Ian Hancock has described similarities between the African language Krio and Gullah, the creole language of African-Americans in the isolated Sea Islands of South Carolina and points out that the Krio expression bohboh (boy) appears in Gullah as buhbuh, which may account for the bubba of the American South.
Robert Ferguson notes in his book English Surnames that bubba corresponds with the German Bube, a boy. This matches Saxon and Hibernian tradition.
Because of its association with the southern part of the United States, bubba is also often used outside the South as a pejorative to mean a person of low economic status and limited education. Bubba may also be taken to mean one who is a " good ol' boy." In the US Army and Marines, bubba can mean a lay soldier, similar to "grunt", but with connotations of endearment instead of derision (e.g., "Can you make that device easier to work with, 'cus every bubba is gonna have to use it.").
At times, it may be used as a term of endearment (or in an insulting sense) for a person, especially a man, who is either overweight or has a seemingly powerful large body frame.
In gun culture, Bubba is a term used for a person who permanently alters or modifies historic firearms, with no regard for its historical value.
The word exists in other languages and carries similar meanings. Bubba is common in Australia and New Zealand as a noun or pronoun to refer affectionately to a baby.
Bubba ( c. 1982 – August 22, 2006) was a Queensland grouper who resided at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, Illinois. Bubba is believed to be the first fish to undergo chemotherapy. He was often nicknamed "The Super Grouper."
Usage examples of "bubba".
Only Tom Silva owned a good old-fashioned bubba truck complete with shovel and gun rack.
Felicity wanted to go to Kansas City and blast those bubbas with the best damn barbeque they had ever tasted.
There was no point in questioning Bubba further, putting strain on that fragile brain.
In an amazingly short time, Bubba was out the window, Eric was sitting in the chair by the bed, and I was in the bed trying to look weak and shaky.
I thought of poor Bubba, and tried to worry about his fatewhich he might have already metbut I was just too weak to worry about it.
Maybe they were assuming Bubba had freed Bill while he was roaming the compound.
Pam was thoughtful enough to fetch the blood, and Bubba took a big swig.
During her stay in the hospital, Violette fell in love with an alcoholic named Bubba Winters, who was recovering from double pneumonia.
Jacksonville Naval District, because she had never gotten around to divorcing Bubba Winters before she married him.
Torvingen, Bubba here is a fine, upstanding citizen, and you want to spoil his reputation, for a lamb?
If there was anyone the bubbas hated more than federal agents, it was foreigners.
She was practiced in the modus operandi of Bubbas, for whom revenge was a reflex, like getting up for a beer during commercials.
The B&B's hot dogs and burgers were popular, too, especially with Davidson students, and, of course, with other Bubbas on their way for a day of fishing at Lake Norman.
I never got into any of the cliques: the spacewalkers, the sports fans, the commanders, the bubbas who hung out at Molly’s Pub.
Joe Quinn arrived at the door thirty minutes after the delivery man from Bubbas brought the food.