- Bubeleh
- Endearing term for anyone you like regardless of age
Yiddish-English phrasebook. 2013.
Bubeleh
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bubeleh — A Yiddish endearment occasionally slipped into an English sentence by those familiar with that language. Leo Rosten, in The Joys of Yiddish, says that it rhymes with hood a la and is ‘widely used for ‘darling’, ‘dear child’, ‘honey’,… … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
tateleh — A diminutive form of tata, the Yiddish word for ‘Dad’ or ‘papa’, often used to address a small boy. It is so used in The Storyteller, by Harold Robbins, where a Jewish father says to his son: ‘I’ll see you tonight, tateleh.’ Calling a child… … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
