Babcia

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A Polish grandmother.

    "These cakes are from family recipes, from great-grandmothers and babcias, from kitchens as far apart as Knoxville, Tennessee, and Warsaw, Poland."

  2. 2
    A Polish old woman.

    "There are many women in these processions, many of them old babcias with cheeks pink as a young girl’s under their flowered headscarves."

Synonyms

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babusiagrandmothergranny

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"These cakes are from family recipes, from great-grandmothers and babcias, from kitchens as far apart as Knoxville, Tennessee, and Warsaw, Poland."

Etymology

From Polish babcia.

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