this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2025
192 points (97.1% liked)

Memes

1510 readers
1 users here now

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
seahorse@midwest.social
192
Roberta tea (midwest.social)
submitted 5 months ago by seahorse@midwest.social to c/memes@midwest.social
10 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] MagnyusG@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] __nobodynowhere@startrek.website 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Buford_T_Justice@reddthat.com 4 points 5 months ago

I'll have to remember that for next time I'm in Canton.

load more comments (1 replies)