bubba

Meanings

1. Brother; used as term of familiar address.
2. A working-class white male from the southern US, stereotyped as loutish.

1. The stereotypical white male; John Doe.
2. A generic nickname for any white male.
3. A nickname for a brother, usually the eldest brother and initially used only by young children before sometimes spreading to become a person's general adult nickname.
4. A personification of prison rape, especially as a righteous punishment.

1. Alternative form of bubba (a white male Southerner).

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