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babushka

noun
/bəˈbuːʃ.kə/UK

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ба́бушка (bábuška, “grandmother”), from Old East Slavic бабушка (babuška, “grandmother, midwife”). First attested in the 1830s.

  1. derived from бабушка
  2. borrowed from ба́бушка

Definitions

  1. An Eastern European old woman.

    • There was a 92-year-old babushka who was injured, and we put her on the stretcher and helped get her out.
    • As a boy, I hand-made pelmeni with my babushka Alla, my hands and face covered in flour as we worked in the cold of my grandparents’ basement in Paterson, New Jersey.

  2. A traditional floral headscarf worn by an Eastern European woman, tied under the chin.

    • White Parian bust of smiling Russian peasant woman - with babushka covering head, lovely detail work, 21½″ tall
    • “Say hello to old Stanley,” he called as she pattered down the steps into the street, flung a babushka over her license plate and screeched away down Telegraph.
    • The crowd falls silent, momentarily stunned, while a heavyset woman in a babushka pushes her way through, broadcasting the news […].

  3. A Russian doll, a matryoshka.

The neighborhood

Derived

babushka doll, babushkaed

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA