Babusia
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A Polish grandmother.
"Hanna sent food over when my babusia was sick."
- 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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More examples"Hanna sent food over when my babusia was sick."
Etymology
From Polish babusia.