babushka

IPA: bʌbˈʊʃkʌ

An old woman, especially one of Eastern European descent.
(by association) A stereotypical, Eastern European peasant grandmother-type figure.
A Russian grandmother.
(Eastern Europe, derogatory, slang) An old woman of Russian or Belarusian descent with unwelcome conservative and/or Orthodox Christian views.
A traditional floral headscarf worn by an Eastern European woman, tied under the chin.
A Russian doll, a matryoshka.

Examples of "babushka" in Sentences

He called her babushka, or grandmother, as a sort of joke, although she wasn't much older than him.
Many Russian grandmothers wear scarves on their heads-hence the odd porting of the word babushka in America to refer to a head scarf itself.
And she said her grandmother, who was a-- "babushka" is the word for grandmother -- that it was like a magical event when babushka made this face cream.
Father Tikhon would not confirm this relationship; church rules don't allow him to say whether a babushka is confessing to him, never mind Russia's president.
Do you think it could be a kind of babushka-scarf that was longer and tied under the back of the head—sort of what Jackie Onassis wore when she visited Capri?
As to the stereotypes, I think nobody can beat people from the msot advanced country in the world who sees all Russians in 'babushka's shawls dring vodka during year long winter!
They take less care about their skin (and this is why they turn into a "babushka" at the age of 30, as one of my Italian friends said) than an average European (I noticed that, where a European tries to remove imperfections, a Ukrainian tends to hide the under a thick layer of makeup).