Definitions

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  • noun grandfather
  • noun elderly man (as a term of respect)

Etymologies

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Yiddish זיידע (zeyde, "grandfather")

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Examples

  • These are her parents, Louis and Lena Cohen, my zayde and bubbe.

    MORE FROM GINNY BATES: AT THE BEACH IN 1994 Maggie Jochild 2007

  • Arnett accomplishes this by mimicking the voice inflections of the Transylvanian vampire with the Yiddish-like maunderings of a curmudgeonly zayde grandfather.

    DVD Review: ‘Horton Hears A Who!’ 2009

  • Your mom and zayde know, but not everybody in the world.

    MORE FROM GINNY BATES: AT THE BEACH IN 1994 Maggie Jochild 2007

  • She perfected the rugelach recipe making it for her boyfriend's bubbe and zayde, who've been living in a bungalow on those bluffs for years.

    Celebrate Barbecue Diversity, Part 3 tannaz 2006

  • She perfected the rugelach recipe making it for her boyfriend's bubbe and zayde, who've been living in a bungalow on those bluffs for years.

    Archive 2006-07-01 tannaz 2006

  • I don't have a bubbie or a zayde; there's nary a Jewish mother in my whole family tree, except for one aunt-by-marriage whose cinnamon-dusted rugelach I still fondly recall.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Oy Vay, zayde, if you would have only known then about FDR what we know today, there's no way you would have voted for him.

    NY Daily News 2010

  • Election day was always special to my zayde grandfather.

    NY Daily News 2010

  • Meanwhile, Biden has been calling himself a zayde and telling Floridians they will soon be mishpocheh as he recounts how he took his sons to visit Dachau.

    INSTAPUTZ 2008

  • "Many of these new arrivals ... have brought with them unfamiliar customs, strange tongues, and ideas which are the product of centuries of unexampled persecution," wrote Louis B. Marshall in 1904 of your bubbe and zayde.

    Articles 2008

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