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▪ I. † ˈbubby1 Obs. or dial.
[Cf. Ger. bübbi teat (Grimm). Connexion with F. poupe teat of an animal (formerly also of a woman), Pr. popa, It. poppa teat, is very doubtful.]
A woman's breast.
1686D'Urfey New Poems (1690) 206 The Ladies here may without Scandal shew Face or white Bubbies, to each ogling Beau. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull in Arb. Garner (1883) VI. 601 Why don't you go and suck the bubby? 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. II. O iv b/1 If on the contrary a Woman has no occasion for Milk..Let her put Chervil upon her Bubbies.
▪ II. bubby2
[Bartlett and Webster say a corruption of brother: but the word looks more like Ger. bube, bub, boy.]
In U.S. a familiar name for a little boy.
1848–60in Bartlett. 1864in Webster. |