📚 Babushka, noun. 🔉 /bəˈbʊʃkə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (in Russia) an old woman or grandmother. ❗️ Examples: 1. Shouldn't we give up the nervous fingering of the beads of the grandmas and the babushkas? 2. My babushka was called Ceceila, an unusual name in Russia. 3. The children continued their swimming exercises in the pond, and the babushkas proceeded with their grave and slow discussions about their grandchildren, prices, and pensions. 4. The losers walk away with their tails between their legs as small children hurl rocks at them and wizened babushkas cackle insults in obscure Slavic dialects. 5. They vie for pavement space with old babushkas selling everything from flowers to cigarettes to kittens in socks, calendar style. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic