Obs. or dial. [Cf. Ger. bübbi teat (Grimm). Connection with F. poupe teat of an animal (formerly also of a woman), Pr. popa, It. poppa teat, is very doubtful.] A woman’s breast.
1686. D’Urfey, New Poems (1690), 206. The Ladies here may without Scandal shew Face or white Bubbies, to each ogling Beau.
1712. Arbuthnot, John Bull, in Arb., Garner (1883), VI. 601. Why don’t you go and suck the bubby?
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., II. O iv b/1. If on the contrary a Woman has no occasion for Milk … Let her put Chervil upon her Bubbies.
