BABUSHKA Definition & Meaning

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babushka

[ buh-boosh-kuh, -boosh- ]

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noun

a woman's scarf, often triangular, used as a hood with two of the ends tied under the chin.
an elderly Russian woman, especially an elderly grandmother.

babushka

/ ��əˈ��ːʃ��ə /

noun

a headscarf tied under the chin, worn by Russian peasant women
(in Russia) an old woman

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of babushka¹

First recorded in 1935–40; from Russian ��á��ܲ��첹 “grandmother,” from ��á��(��) baba ¹( def ) + -ushka, diminutive suffix

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of babushka¹

Russian: grandmother, from baba old woman

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Example Sentences

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.

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“My babushka put a salve on it. It’s almost all the way healed.”

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“She belonged to an old Khazar family. They escaped the old tsar’s slaughter. Fled north, like yer babushka. They had neighbors who...”

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“There was a 92-year-old babushka who was injured, and we put her on the stretcher and helped get her out.”

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In some villages, babushkas lay down in the roads blocking Ukrainian tanks, officers said, and in one, an especially cunning babushka kept stealing the soldiers’ helmets.

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