bubby in A Sentence

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    Bubby and I will meet you there.

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    Very sweet that Bubby does that.

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    Bubby: That's because you have two kids living at home.

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    Thus, if“Bubby” didn't just derive from the German for“teat”, it's generally thought it came from these vocalisations.

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    As to where“Bubby” came from, the two leading theories here are either via the German“bübbi”, meaning“teat”(not well supported via documented evidence), or simply via baby talk.

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    (Interestingly, in the mid-19th century,“Bubby” was a slang term for“little boy”, but unfortunately for making a connection between“pūpus” and“Bubby” meaning“breast”,“Bubby” meaning“boy” first occurred almost two centuries after“Bubby” was being used to describe mammaries.).

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    It has also been widely speculated that perhaps“Bubby” was only partially from baby vocalisations, and in fact was just a child-speak variation of the Latin for“little girl”,“pūpa”, the feminine gender of“pūpus”(little boy), which itself may be a word that has its origins in baby-talk.

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