bubah

plural bubahs

1. alternativeAlternative form of bubbe.

   bubah, or old grandmother;

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

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   My bubah was a typical Shetel grandmother[…]

   1959, Bernard Postal, The Jewish Digest

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

   2015, Michael Rosen, “Michael Rosen's Bear Hunt, Chocolate Cake and Bad Things - in pictures”, in The Guardian