英和和英

語源 1

Diminutive of husband + -y.

名詞

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.

同意語

• hubbyman (rare)

語源 2

From hub +‎ -y (adjectival suffix).

形容詞

hubby (comparative hubbier, superlative hubbiest)

1. (US) Full of hubs or protuberances.

   A road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby.