Translation
brat, urchin; cheeky lad
Word origin
From German Bube, a boy and, in the older sense, a knave. The same Germanic family gave English boy the card-playing sense of knave, and Bube is still the jack in a German deck.
- Origin
- German
- Root
- Bube
- English cognates
- knave
Examples
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The urchins ran through the street shouting.
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He is a good lad, but he never listens.
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Do not be a brat in front of the guests.
is a boy with an attitude. It covers the ragged child running loose in
the street, the cheeky one who answers back, and, said warmly by a grandmother,
something close to you little monkey. Like most affectionate insults, the
tone is carried entirely by the face of the person saying it.
Keep it apart from fripono, which owns the rogue
end of this territory: a is a rascal or a crook, an adult with a
scheme, and there is money involved. A is younger, poorer and more
annoying, and steals apples rather than pensions.
The affixes do the register for you. o is the one you genuinely dislike,
o the small one you have forgiven already, and buba describes the
behaviour: buba rido, a cheeky laugh. o exists for a girl, though
is often used of any child of that sort, and plain
knabo stays the neutral word for a boy.
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