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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

... said. "You made her fond of you. It was your own doing. And you wouldn't get me if you did give her up. I'd no more take you from her, now she's got her wedding-dress and all, than I'd stick a knife into a baby sleeping in its pram. She worships you—can't you see that? It would spoil ...

— The Privet Hedge • J. E. Buckrose

... to measure limbs, etc., by feeling the joints. What you say about old cocks just confirms what I thought, and I will make my skeletons of old cocks. Should an old wild turkey ever die, please remember me; I do not care for a baby turkey, nor for a mastiff. Very many thanks for your offer. I have puppies of bull-dogs and greyhound in salt, and I have had cart-horse and race-horse young colts carefully measured. Whether I shall do any good I doubt. I am getting ...

— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I • Francis Darwin

... protection in beating through the surf. Matt Abrahamson thought he had found something of more than usual value when he came upon this chest; but when he cut the cords and broke open the box with his broadax, he could not have been more astonished had he beheld a salamander instead of a baby of nine or ten months old lying half smothered in the blankets that covered the ...

— Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates • Howard Pyle

... loved you. She wondered how you would look; she dreamed of you; she fancied she could feel the touch of your fluttering fingers; she made your little wardrobe and with each stitch wove in some tender thought of the baby whom she had never seen. Then one day she cried out with great anguish of body but joy of heart, 'O my baby is coming.' Then through long hours she suffered, going down almost to the gates of death that you might have life. But she never murmured; ...

— Almost A Man • Mary Wood-Allen

... more than declamation. Rent collectors were afraid to meet their principals, as no money could be collected. Provision dealers were subject to incursions from a wolfish man prowling for food for his children, or from a half frantic woman, with her dying baby at her breast; or from parties of ten or a dozen desperate wretches who were levying contributions along the street. The linen draper told how new clothes had become out of the question with his customers, and they bought only remnants and patches, to mend the old ones. The baker was more and more ...

— Sophisms of the Protectionists • Frederic Bastiat

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