bubah

bubah (plural bubahs)

1. Alternative form of bubbe.
   • 1959, Bernard Postal, The Jewish Digest:

     My bubah was a typical Shetel grandmother […]

   • 2015, Michael Rosen, “Michael Rosen's Bear Hunt, Chocolate Cake and Bad Things - in pictures”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     These days, people spell ‘Bubah’ as ‘Bubbe’ and ‘Zaida’ as ‘Zeyde’. They mean ‘Granny’ and ‘Grandad’ in Yiddish.

   • 2019 August 17, Hillel Levine, The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions, Plunkett Lake Press:

     bubah, or old grandmother;