hubby
adjEtymology From hub + -y (adjectival suffix).
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US Full of hubs or protuberances.
- A road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby.
hubby
noun/ˈhʌbi/ · IE /ˈhʊbi/
Etymology Diminutive of husband + -y.
- Laura thought Jack was the most wonderful hubby in the world.
- “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.1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 50:
- Synonyms
- hubbyman
- Derived terms
- househubby, hubster