• MagnyusG
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    1520 hours ago

    Is Boba short for Roberta? One of life’s mysteries.

    • @[email protected]
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      17 hours ago

      Was curious. The “bo” part actually comes from English “ball” and the “ba” part means large. So “big balls” but can be used colloquially to mean big breasted woman in Cantonese.

    • @PunnyName
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      919 hours ago

      Bob is short for Robert. So, probably!