"Bubbette" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Bubbettes [plural]
Etymology: Bubba + -ette Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Bubba|ette|id2=female}} Bubba + -ette Head templates: {{en-noun}} Bubbette (plural Bubbettes)
  1. (sometimes derogatory) A working-class white female from the rural American South, stereotyped as ignorant, unrefined, etc. Tags: derogatory, sometimes Coordinate_terms: Bubba
    Sense id: en-Bubbette-en-noun-lHgzXGqX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ette (female)

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1988, Pete Franklin, Terry Pluto, You Could Argue But You'd Be Wrong, Contemporary Books, page 79",
          "text": "Bubba and Bubbette love rasslin' because Bubba and Bubbette should really walk around wearing a sandwich board that reads \"quick, someone give me a lobotomy.\"",
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          "ref": "2000, Jan Hornung, This Is the Truth, as Far as I Know: I Could Be Wrong, Writers Club Press, page 1",
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          "ref": "2014, Stephen Schottenfeld, Bluff City Pawn, Bloomsbury, page 105",
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