hubby

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhʌbi/
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  • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): /ˈhʊbi/
  • Rhymes: -ʌbi

Etymology 1

Diminutive of husband + -y.

Noun

hubby (plural hubbies)

  1. (informal, endearing) Husband.
    Laura thought Jack was the most wonderful hubby in the world.
    • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 50:
      “But they have done more than talk — they have written — written to my hubby — I'm sure of it,” said the Man's Wife, and she pulled a letter from her husband out of her saddle-pocket and gave it to the Tertium Quid.
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Etymology 2

From hub +‎ -y (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

hubby (comparative hubbier, superlative hubbiest)

  1. (US) Full of hubs or protuberances.
    A road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby.
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