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- noun One's
grandmother . - noun Any
elderly woman .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Far be it from me to underestimate Hilton's facility with Yiddish, but my ears hear that lyric as "Got a heart and soul and body," not "bubbe" -- but you're doing a great job, Brownie!
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A "bubbe," or Grandma in Yiddish, a.k.a. Janet Goldstein, is bringing her to-die-for cheesecake and teaching students how to make blintzes.
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What happened is the investment bankers started investing in mortgage brokers, resulting in fraud, and when the housing bubbe blew it made the problems all that much worse as all these derivatives bets on mortgage backed SIVs also imploded.
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This writer is obviously not very widely read if this bubbe meiseh is the most disgusting thing she has ever come across.
Shira Dicker: Hook Up vs. Shut Up: Yeshiva University’s Sex Story Controversy Shira Dicker 2011
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I am part rebel and part joker, like my bubbe Fanny was, and part student of the Torah, like my bubbe Mary.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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My bubbe wasn't considered white when she was my age.
Fen of Color United! karnythia 2009
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This writer is obviously not very widely read if this bubbe meiseh is the most disgusting thing she has ever come across.
Shira Dicker: Hook Up vs. Shut Up: Yeshiva University’s Sex Story Controversy Shira Dicker 2011
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I am part rebel and part joker, like my bubbe Fanny was, and part student of the Torah, like my bubbe Mary.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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When Bertha Berman Froomkin went into labor in Youngstown, Ohio, to give birth to her son Michael, my own bubbe, Bertha Berman Aron went into labor in Youngstown, Ohio, with my mom Joyce ready to be born.
Aunt Bertha's Spinach Kugel Marni 2009
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At the King David Hotel, I changed into the dress I had inherited from my bubbe Mary—of her own design, it was beige with brown embroidered flowers, a darted bodice, and a lovely bowed kick pleat in the back.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
sgordonson commented on the word bubbe
Yiddish for Grandmother
June 8, 2009
sgordonson commented on the word bubbe
language yiddish - bubbe means grandmother.
July 10, 2009