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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

... would do so. He sat, leaning back as though exceedingly feeble, scarcely speaking, but his eyes eloquent with eagerness. And very fine eyes they were! Ethel remembered her own weariness, some twelve or fourteen years back, of the raptures of her baby-loving sisters about those eyes; and now in the absence of the florid colouring of health, she was the more struck by the beauty of the deep liquid brown, of the blue tinge of the white, and of the lustrous light that resided in them, but far ...

— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge

... ashore there are hundreds of little vehicles called jinrikishas, which look something like baby carriages with only one seat and an umbrella. The Japs will come trooping around jabbering to you to ride. You get in one and a Jap will get between a small pair of shafts and trot away with you, and go that way as long as you want him to for ten cents an hour. The traveler can go anywhere he desires ...

— A Soldier in the Philippines • Needom N. Freeman

... said the superintendent. "Now I'll have Bradford pull us up on the spur to give you room to get your baby crane ahead; then you can pull down ...

— The Taming of Red Butte Western • Francis Lynde

... plump baby hung limply over the woman's left arm looked most uncomfortable. The baby, however, seemed highly content. Both his sticky fists clutched firmly a generous "chunk" of new maple-sugar, which he mumbled with his toothless gums, while his big eyes, widening like an owl's, stared about through ...

— The House in the Water - A Book of Animal Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts

... little man with a round, innocent face, and flaxen hair rising in a curly halo about it. His china-blue eyes had all the trust and surprise of a newly awakened baby. Life had always been to Pa Tapkins a mild series of shocks, and he parried each statement and circumstance in order that he might haply recognize it if he ran across it again, or, more properly speaking, if it struck ...

— Janet of the Dunes • Harriet T. Comstock

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