bubby n.1
a female breast; usu. in pl.
![]() | Soldier’s Fortune I i: Bubbies! oh law, there’s bubbies! – odd, I’ll bite ’em; odd, I will! | |
![]() | Old Bachelor V ii: Did not her eyes twinkle, and her mouth water? did not she pull up her little bubbies? | |
![]() | Writings (1704) 66: The Swell of her Bubbies, the Jut of her Bum, / To the great Brawny Stallion, crys, Come, my Dear, Come. | ‘Walk to Islington’ in|
![]() | Fifteen Plagues of a Maiden-Head 8: If any Man do’s with my Bubbies play [...] My Breasts do heave. | |
![]() | in Pills to Purge Melancholy III 219: His Hand her milk-white Bubby press’d. | |
![]() | Penkethman’s Jests 10: Master Johnny [...] with his Mother’s Chambermaid [...] kissing, pressing her Bubbies, and the like. | |
![]() | Life of Thomas Neaves 31: One of them would step to kiss her, and under the pretence of feeling her pretty Bubbies would thrust his Hand down her Bosom. | |
![]() | Hist. of Highwaymen &c. 12: Like a Child set to Sleep by giving it the Bubby. | |
![]() | Sexes Mis-Match’d 187: Ha, ha, ha, her soft whitish Bubbies! | |
![]() | Tommy Thumb’s Songbook II 36: Blackamoor, Taunymoor, / Suck a Bubby, / Your Father’s / A Cuckold, / Your Mother told me. | |
![]() | ‘No Wit like to a Woman’s’ Exeter Garland 6: I’ll on her Bosom lay my Head, her Bubbies to embrace. | |
![]() | Homer Travestie (1764) I 179: Her fine alabaster bubbies, / Her eyes of jet, and lips of rubies. | |
![]() | ‘The Jolly Waggoner’ Fond Mother’s Garland 6: As her Bubbies went up her plump Buttocks went down. | |
![]() | Verse in Eng. in 18C Ireland (1998) 383: And straight, would make a wond’rous rout, / If bubby peep’d from tucker out. | ‘The Modern Lass’ in A. Carpenter|
![]() | Nunnery Amusements 5: His eyes / Examine heaving bubbies, snowy thighs. | |
![]() | ‘Medley’ in Hilaria 40: Humbugs pray take heed of our modern made-up wenches, / Fore and aft they are plump to view, but feel and you will find, sir / They’ve bubbies like blown bladders, and all is hum behind, sir. | |
![]() | ‘The Larking Cull’ [caption to illus.] Who for greater joys do hunt Than rising bubbies and a C—t. | |
![]() | ‘Sandman Joe’ Lummy Chaunter 81: His brawny hand her bubbies prest. | |
![]() | Pretty Little Games (c.1872) plate iv: A larger thing would give more pleasure, / She always loves to have full measure. / And who for greater joys do hunt / Than rising bubbies and a C—t. | |
![]() | Peeping Tom (London) 7 28/2: My Nance as such shinin’ highs [i.e. eyes] / And bubbys wot can never tire. | |
![]() | ‘Paddy Miles and the Mermaid’ Rakish Rhymer (1917) 12: ’Twas a beautiful Mermaid, as naked as Venus, / A washing her bubbies and combing her hair. | |
![]() | ‘Sub-Umbra, Or Sport Among The She-Noodles’ Pearl 1 July 3: My hands were caressing the white, firm flesh of her beautiful neck, slowly working their way towards the heaving bubbies. | |
![]() | Sins of the Cities of the Plain 91: He acted as a lady’s maid, fitted my bust with a pair of false bubbies. | |
![]() | Venus in India I 33: Her beautiful breasts were round, plump and firm looking. I longed to take possession of those lovely, lovely bubbies!! | |
![]() | Bagnio Misc. 8: I was rather embonpoint — my bubbies were large and firm. | |
![]() | Nocturnal Meeting 12: I made bold to [...] gaze upon the magnificent bubbies. | |
![]() | Life & Amours (1967) I 61: He had been playing with my bubbies, admiring their whiteness, firmness and volume. | |
![]() | Sel. Letters (1975) 184: To fuck between your two rosy-tipped bubbies, to come on your face. | letter 6 Dec. to Nora Barnacle in Ellman|
![]() | DN III:vi 438: bubbies, n. The breasts. | ‘Word-List From Western New York’ in|
![]() | in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 121: You can feel of my bubbies an’ belly, / An’ smell of my slimey flue. | |
![]() | in Limerick (1953) 330: A maiden who dwells in Galena / Has bubbies of graceful demeanor. | |
![]() | in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 461: She had two little bubbies as round as a plumb. | |
![]() | Down in the Holler 120: The real old-time term for the female breasts is not bosom but dinners; young smart-alecs say bubbies. | |
![]() | in Erotic Muse (1992) 280: I played with her bubbies, her great big white bubbies, / And down where the short hair grows. | |
![]() | ‘The Cuckoo’s Nest’ in Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing (1995) 233: I like a girl with the bubbies on her breast, / And a road that’s easy travelled to her cuckoo’s nest. | |
![]() | Arrivants 260: Not to mention big-bubbie Babs. | ‘Tizzic’ in|
![]() | Dict. of Obscenity etc. | |
![]() | (con. 1920s) Livin’ the Blues 72: The broads weren’t staging a contest for the bigger and better bubbies. | |
![]() | Guardian G2 28 Jan. 8: The male gaze [...] makes a beeline for the bubbies. | |
![]() | Carnival 231: So watch you foking mout! And tell she cover up her bubbies. |