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babushka

[buh-boosh-kuh, -boosh-] / bəˈbʊʃ kə, -ˈbuʃ- /




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The title character and occasional commentator, played as a gloomy babushka in a red headscarf by David Turner, foresees little hope for a glorious future.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 26, 2026

Oliver presents as all sunny, breezy love, sporting a trucker cap over a babushka over bleached pink hair.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2025

As a boy, I hand-made pelmeni with my babushka Alla, my hands and face covered in flour as we worked in the cold of my grandparents’ basement in Paterson, New Jersey.

From Seattle Times Jul. 7, 2023

In some villages, babushkas lay down in the roads blocking Ukrainian tanks, officers said, and in one, an especially cunning babushka kept stealing the soldiers’ helmets.

From New York Times Sep. 17, 2022

Otherwise, they looked like babushka nesting dolls with red and yellow scarves around sad faces.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri




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