different between generic vs bubba

English

Alternative forms

• generick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French générique, from Latin genus (“genus, kind”) + -ic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d???n???k/
• Hyphenation: gen?er?ic
• Rhymes: -?r?k

Adjective

generic (comparative more generic, superlative most generic)

1. very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups (genera) as opposed to specific instances.
   • 1864, Walter Bagehot, "Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English Poetry", in The National Review Volume 19

     […] the essence is that such self-describing poets describe what is in them, but not peculiar to them, – what is generic, not what is special and individual.

2. lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise
3. (of a product or drug) not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents
4. (taxonomy) pertaining to a taxon at the rank of genus
5. relating to gender
6. (grammar) specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene

   Words like salesperson and firefighter are generic.

7. (computing, of procedures) written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter
8. (geometry, of a point) having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field

Synonyms

• (comprehensive): broad, general, classic; see also Thesaurus:generic
• (lacking in precision): fuzzy, indefinite; see also Thesaurus:vague
• (lacking a brand): unbranded

Antonyms

• (comprehensive): specific, particular, concrete; see also Thesaurus:specific
• (lacking a brand): non-generic, proprietary, branded
• (neither masculine nor feminine): gendered

Derived terms

• genericity
• genericness
• generic you

Translations

Noun

generic (plural generics)

1. A product sold under a generic name.
2. A wine that is a blend of several wines, or made from a blend of several grape varieties.
3. (grammar) A term that specifies neither male nor female.

Translations

Related terms

• gender
• genus

Anagrams

• energic

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French générique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?e?ne.rik/

Adjective

generic m or n (feminine singular generic?, masculine plural generici, feminine and neuter plural generice)

1. generic

Declension

Noun

generic n (plural generice)

1. (television, film) credits, titles

Declension

English

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 *b?-, *b?-, such as West Frisian bobbe, German Bube (“boy”), dialectal Swedish babbe (“little boy”), English babe, Dutch boef (“mischievous lad, rascal”), Middle Low German b?ve, and Icelandic bófi. Also compare sissy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?b?/

Noun

bubba (plural bubbas)

1. (Southern US, Australia, childish) Brother; used as term of familiar address.
2. A working-class white male from the southern US, stereotyped as loutish.
   • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, page 120:

     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

• Bubba

See also

• brother, brotha
• bro
• bubby