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Baby

noun

(pl. babies)

A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk. Synonyms: babe, infant. "She held the baby in her arms" , "It sounds simple, but when you have your own baby it is all so different"

The youngest member of a group (not necessarily young). "The baby of the Supreme Court"

An immature childish person. Synonym: child. "Stop being a baby!"

An unborn child; a human fetus. "It was great to feel my baby moving about inside"

(slang) sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women. Synonyms: babe, sister.

A very young mammal.

A project of personal concern to someone.

verb

(past & past part. babied; pres. part. babying)

Treat with excessive indulgence. Synonyms: cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil. "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

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"Baby" Quotes from Famous Books

... was a baby Pat had taken him for a pet. Accordingly, when, two years later, Jim was born, Mike took him in charge. To-day Pat's arm was thrown protectingly over Andy's shoulders, while Jim stood in the embrace of Mike's arm at the other window. Barney and Tommie, aged seven ...

— The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys • Gulielma Zollinger

... studying the poetry of motion. There is one motion that goes to the tune of "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep," but this rocking is so violent that as one dashes from side to side, holding on to the bars above and the edge of the berth, one is led to pity a wakeful baby rocked wickedly by the big brother impatient to go to play. The tune changes, and it is "Ploughing the Raging Main," and the nose of the plough goes down too deep; then one is fastened to the walking beam of an engine and sways up and ...

— The Letters of "Norah" on her Tour Through Ireland • Margaret Dixon McDougall

... The baby powder commercial appeared on the monitor and I walked over to the next set. They had the first contestant lined up for me. I smiled and took her card from the floor man. She was a middle-aged woman with a faded print dress and old-style shoes. I never saw the contestants ...

— One Out of Ten • J. Anthony Ferlaine

... up to the big glass and looking beyond my excited face to the room behind me. There sat the woman who can never nurse her baby except where everybody can see her, in a railroad station. There was the woman who's always hungry, nibbling chocolates out of a box; and the woman fallen asleep, with her hat on the side, and hairpins dropping out of her hair; and the woman ...

— In the Bishop's Carriage • Miriam Michelson

... I do," says grandpapa. "Rachel, my love, the way in which I am petticoat-ridden is so evident that even this baby has ...

— Boys and girls from Thackeray • Kate Dickinson Sweetser

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