# What does \[Hubba hubba! Meow!\] mean? \[facebook comment\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-hubba-hubba-meow-mean-facebook-comment/764144>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 27, 2016, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-hubba-hubba-meow-mean-facebook-comment/764144 "2016-08-27T16:08:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-hubba-hubba-meow-mean-facebook-comment/764144/21 "2016-08-28T14:59:20Z")

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“I took a semester of Cat in college…”

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**Author:** ![Munenushi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Munenushi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munenushi)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-hubba-hubba-meow-mean-facebook-comment/764144/22 "2016-08-29T11:51:41Z")

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> [@Myskinafan](#):
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> I think I can rule out the second possibility with this woman. It seems like flirting with men isn’t her thing. She’s been with the same man for five years but it seems that relationship is in limbo and they aren’t really seeing each other at this time. So, I’m wondering if she’s testing other waters? Or if interpreting her comment in that manner would be reading far too much into it and asking her out would be a terrible faux pas. We have close mutual friends that we’ve recently spent time together with (a couple weekends) without her partner being present. And now this? But if I act too boldly, I could make future social situations extremely awkward.
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> Thanks for your reply, btw!

It is also a somewhat dated response, from about the 1930’s… and although you have your answer now (via this thread), I wanted to comment also that,

Females are much more uninhibited online (versus real life, men are similar but do not display such a large differential). I know of many past co-workers who had “online only” relationships or made near-rude comments on Facebook, Pinterest and the like, but were quite demure in person (even hearing them around corners as I approached etc, the ones making these comments were quite introverted in real life). It seems to be an “outlet” for the somewhat-still-suppressed female extroversion in our society, it seems.

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**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-hubba-hubba-meow-mean-facebook-comment/764144/23 "2016-08-29T12:10:57Z")

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> [@Myskinafan](#):
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> What does it mean when a woman comments under a man’s picture on Facebook, “Hubbe hubba! Meow?”
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> I don’t want to misinterpret this woman’s comment. We’ve spent some time together in social situations with mutual friends.

Perhaps we might better interpret her meaning if we could see what she was reacting to? 😃

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