Bubbette
English
Etymology
Bubba + -ette
Noun
Bubbette (plural Bubbettes)
- (sometimes derogatory) A working-class white female from the rural American South, stereotyped as ignorant, unrefined, etc.
- 1988, Pete Franklin (with Terry Pluto), You Could Argue But You'd Be Wrong, Contemporary Books (1988), →ISBN, page 79:
- Bubba and Bubbette love rasslin' because Bubba and Bubbette should really walk around wearing a sandwich board that reads "quick, someone give me a lobotomy."
- 2000, Jan Hornung, This Is the Truth, as Far as I Know: I Could Be Wrong, Writers Club Press (2000), →ISBN, page 1:
- The good folks of Sugar Tit have been sponsoring this festival since the early 90s to honor the hard-working good-ole-boys and their lifestyle in the South. They honor the gals, too. That would be the Bubbettes.
- 2014, Stephen Schottenfeld, Bluff City Pawn, Bloomsbury (2014), →ISBN, page 105:
- Not just dealers but every scumbag and gunrunner calling nonstop, every Bubba and Bubbette that ever wanted a gun.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:Bubbette.
- 1988, Pete Franklin (with Terry Pluto), You Could Argue But You'd Be Wrong, Contemporary Books (1988), →ISBN, page 79:
Coordinate terms
- Bubba