what is a "bubok"?
| 16:30 Feb 17, 2009 |
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| 3 +1 | bogeyman |
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| 3 | bugbear, scarecrow |
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1 hr confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1bogeyman Explanation: the word you're probably looking for is bubák, which means bogeyman. I've never heard of it used as a racial slur. Then I considered it might be some form of argot(?). And indeed, to my horror I found myself on a rightwing site I'd rather not visit again. But there, Bubak was used at least once in the comments to refer pejoratively to a black person: http://cz.altermedia.info/ze-zahranici/negr-slavnostni-pohob... see: comment 31 but as I say, I don't think normal Czechs would know about this (perhaps I'm wrong?) |
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bugbear, scarecrow Explanation: I think it is old Slovak/Czech word originating in old Slavic language (Proto-Slavic) bubák - mumbler too please find more in en.wikipedia.org bugbear |
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