bub

Meanings

Noun

• An alcoholic malt liquor, especially beer.
• A woman's breast.
• ; bubba; bubby.
• A young brother; a little boy; .
• A baby.
• Abbreviation of bubble
• champagne; bubbly.

Verb

• To throw out in bubbles; to bubble.

Origin

• Probably imitative of the sound of drinking.
• Contraction of bubby.
• Either a corruption of brother, a modification of bud, or a borrowing from Pennsylvania German Bub or Southern German Bub (as was spoken in various communities in America before the early 20th century), ultimately thought to be derived from Proto-Germanic *bō- and thus cognate to English boy and babe.
• West Frisian bobbe, German Bube, dialectal Swedish babbe, English babe, baby, and bully, Dutch boef, Middle Low German bôve, and Icelandic bófi.
• Shortened from bubble and bubbly.