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bub

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bub/bʌb/

▶noun N. Amer. informal a rude or aggressive way of addressing a boy or man.

– origin C19: from earlier bubby (perh. a child's form of brother), or from Ger. Bube ‘boy’.

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