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–noun Slang.

(used as an often insolent term of address) brother; buddy.

Origin:
1830–40, Americanism; perh. < G Bub, short for Bube boy

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bub (bŭb)

n. Slang
Used as a term of familiar address, especially for a man or boy: See you around, bub.

[Probably alteration and shortening of brother.]

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Word Origin & History

bub

familiar address for males, 1839, perhaps a variation of bud "a little boy" (1848), Amer.Eng. colloquial; perhaps from Ger. bube "boy," or from Eng. brother. The Southern U.S. slang bubba dates from 1860s, and is a corruption of brother.

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