different between kubba vs bubba

English

Noun

kubba (plural kubbas)

1. Alternative form of kibbeh

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