babushka
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babushka
- /bəˈbuːʃ.kə/ UK
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Russian ба́бушка (bábuška, “grandmother”), from Old East Slavic бабушка (babuška, “grandmother, midwife”). First attested in the 1830s.
noun babushkas · babushki · babooshka · baboushka
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An Eastern European old woman.
Yet, much as I loved to listen to it, standing there in the heat of all the lighted candles and dressed in my heavy shuba and felt boots, I invariably, halfway through the service, would begin to feel an intolerable pain across my shoulders which would spread across my back, gradually getting worse,
Similar: baba
- A Russian grandmother. I tell thee what, Babushka! I have no time to waste with thee in idle words.
- 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
- A Russian doll, a matryoshka. The present inhabitants of the Kremlin […] have rigged the Constitution in a series of articles which fit into each other like those wooden babushkas Russian peasants used to make, so that, as one shell after another is removed, the effective power finally resides in the tiny babushka in the inmost
Translations
Talk about this word "babushka." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/babushka. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. babushka. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/babushka "babushka." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/babushka.Cite this
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title = {babushka},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/babushka},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
