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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
"Alexa, define bubba"
Alexa: "The noun 'bubba' is usually defined as: brother (usually used as an affectionate term of address)".
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Probably so in most of the country, but not in Texas, and possibly not in some of the southern states. I personally don't know why the usage became what it is, at least in my region of north Texas, but it is what it is, as they say. Quite often when people around here refer to someone as "Bubba" they are implying he resembles and acts like the character Junior Samples from the old Hee Haw TV series. Maybe it is because the Dallas / Fort Worth area is a large metropolitan area with 7.2 million people and they tend to be better educated and better off financially than people in the rural regions of the state. Plus the DFW area has more people not native to Texas than those who were born in Texas, so I guess it is a way of looking down on and/or making fun of people who are different. At any rate, here in Texas when someone wants to use a term similar to usage as that defined by Alexa for Bubba, they call him "pardner" [sic] or "buddy" or something similar, but they don't normally use "bubba" for that usage.
BTW, I was curious how the "****ing A" phrase originated. I hear it a lot, but never knew anything about its origin. According to the internet it began as a shortened term used within the military during WWII. The "A" was originally the word "Affirmative", and the soldiers would yell out "AFIRMATIVE" when something was done correctly, but over time that changed to "****ING AFIRMATIVE", and was later just shortened to "****ING A". Not sure that is accurate, but it sounds plausible. Unfortunately my dad and all of my relatives who were WWII combat veterans are long gone so I cannot verify with them.