Babusia

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A Polish grandmother.

    "Hanna sent food over when my babusia was sick."

  2. 2
    Alternative spelling of babusya (“Ukrainian grandmother”). alt-of, alternative

    "Ukrainian became the language of the poor, the ignorant, and the backward. In the meantime, Soviet Ukrainian leaders, mimicking [Mikhail] Gorbachev, were saying that their babusias (the diminutive form of babushkas, or grandmothers) spoke a quaint tongue, but that Homo sovieticus was a man above quaintness and folklore."

Synonyms

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babciagrandmothergranny

Example

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"Hanna sent food over when my babusia was sick."

Etymology

From Polish babusia.

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