Babcia
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 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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More examples"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.