Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Chiefly Southern US Brother.
  • noun A white working-class man of the southern United States, stereotypically regarded as uneducated and gregarious with his peers.

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  • noun southern US Brother; used as term of familiar address.
  • noun Working-class white male from southern US, stereotyped as loutish

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Alteration of bub.]

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Possibly an alteration of brother or bub.

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  • he's frum the Saath; likely to weigh a great deal. Bill Hicks' white, glandular, creationist object of hate.

    August 3, 2009