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  • Bubbe is Yiddish for grandmother and this Bubbe is ready to show you the secret to her good cooking.

    WN.com - Articles related to Disney Dining: Hollywood Brown Derby and its famous grapefruit cake 2010

  • Ditto for Ms. Crystal's own mother, who felt, in addition, that the name Bubbe conjured up the image of a neurotic, overprotective worrywart.

    A Grandma or Grandpa by Any Other Name Is Just as Old 2009

  • Justine feels the odd person out in her family, and that Bubbe is the only one who understands her.

    Confessions of a Closet Catholic 2005

  • Justine feels the odd person out in her family, and that Bubbe is the only one who understands her.

    Archive 2005-07-01 2005

  • Mostly, my father was raised by his grandmother and grandfather, whom he called Bubbe and Zayde.

    Tessie and Pearlie JOY HOROWITZ 1996

  • Ms. Crystal concedes the point: "My Bubbe was the type of person who made us wear bathrobes when we went to the pool, even if it was 85 degrees, because she was afraid we would catch a chill."

    A Grandma or Grandpa by Any Other Name Is Just as Old 2009

  • Jussy's search for the spiritual, for meaning, and for guidance is both amusing (Jussy dresses as a nun for her closet confessionals and has crib notes for the Seven Deadly Sins; she believes she's committed 5 and a half of 7) and touching (her Bubbe is a Holocaust survivor).

    Confessions of a Closet Catholic 2005

  • Jussy's search for the spiritual, for meaning, and for guidance is both amusing (Jussy dresses as a nun for her closet confessionals and has crib notes for the Seven Deadly Sins; she believes she's committed 5 and a half of 7) and touching (her Bubbe is a Holocaust survivor).

    Archive 2005-07-01 2005

  • I'm close to "Bubbe" age myself, and I want remember it for mine.

    La Perfumista par Excellence, Part I: The Other Passions Marina Geigert 2008

  • I can't help but wonder what "Bubbe" Hannah, as she was known to all, would make of the fact that today, some 150 years later, the United States ranks 42nd globally in maternal mortality rates, the highest among industrialized countries.

    post-gazette.com - News 2009

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