babcia

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A Polish grandmother.

   • These cakes are from family recipes, from great-grandmothers and babcias, from kitchens as far apart as Knoxville, Tennessee, and Warsaw, Poland.
   • I visited my babcia Lottie Korosz in Hunlock Gardens and all the relatives on my mother’s side of the family. My babcia Jadwiga Gobolewski died while I was still in Washington, but my grandfather Wiktor greeted me warmly in Glen Lyon.
   • My babcia would only stare morosely at photographs of my father’s father, showing me the black and white albums, their youth in Poland, the countryside, the funny dress, the world outside a world outside a world of memories and lost hopes.
2. 2

   A Polish old woman.

   • There are many women in these processions, many of them old babcias with cheeks pink as a young girl’s under their flowered headscarves.
   • THE AGED IN POLAND: GOD AND WORN-OUT BABCIAS

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