A spider's first name, bubba, bee bo

[owlfish]

[Poll #1919561]

I hear quite a few mothers of Grouting's cohort referring to babies as "bubbas", but until this year, I'd never heard it used in that way before.

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[sushidog.livejournal.com]

I think of Bubba as a large chap in prison overalls, so hearing it used as a baby-name is weird to me, but I know people who use it both as a term of endearment and just a general term for babies.

[inbetween-girl.livejournal.com]

This.

Using it to refer to babies seemed to be much more common in the West Midlands than in Yorkshire or anywhere down south.