{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈbeɪbi" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (RP)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (GA)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ ".mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}A human babyA baby monkeyA baby elephant (sometimes called a calf)\nFrom Middle English baby, babie (“baby”), a diminutive form of babe (“babe, baby”), equivalent to babe + -y-ie (“endearing and diminutive suffix”). Perhaps ultimately imitative of baby talk (compare babble). 1" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A very young human, particularly from conception or birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.\n2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian‎:In that film, I often hid my head in my hands, unable to watch scenes about dead babies and diving into gruesome lavatories." }, { "mean": "Any very young animal, especially a vertebrate; many species have specific names for their babies, such as kittens for the babies of cats, puppies for the babies of dogs, and chicks for the babies of birds. See Category:Baby animals for more." }, { "mean": "Unborn young; a fetus.\nWhen is your baby due?" }, { "mean": "A person who is immature, infantile or feeble.\nStand up for yourself – don't be such a baby!" }, { "mean": "A person who is new to or inexperienced in something.\nI only qualified as an architect this summer, so I'm still a baby." }, { "mean": "The lastborn of a family; the youngest sibling, irrespective of age.\nAdam is the baby of the family.\n1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water\n\"You are very dull this morning, Sheriff,\" said the youngest daughter of the house, who, being the baby and pretty, had grown pettishly privileged in speech.\n1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 114:\"He's a year older than me.\" \"You're the baby, eh?\"" }, { "mean": "A person's romantic partner.\n1956, Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, and Elvis Presley (lyrics), “Heartbreak Hotel”, performed by Elvis Presley:Well, since my baby left me,Well, I found a new place to dwell.Well, it's down at the end of Lonely StreetAt Heartbreak Hotel." }, { "mean": "A term of endearment used to refer to or address one's girlfriend, boyfriend or spouse.\nToo busy thinking about my baby, and I ain't got time for nothing else.\nBaby, don't cry." }, { "mean": "(informal) A form of address to a person considered to be attractive.\nHey baby, what are you doing later?" }, { "mean": "A concept or creation endeared by its creator.\nThis test program I've designed is my new baby." }, { "mean": "A pet project or responsibility.\nYou need to talk to John about that – it's his baby.\n1996, Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, Folio Society 2015, p. 902:\nSovnarkom was Lenin's baby, it was where he focused all his energies ." }, { "mean": "An affectionate term for anything.\nSee my new car here? I can't wait to take this baby for a drive." }, { "mean": "(archaic) A small image of an infant; a doll." }, { "mean": "(often attributive) One who is new to an identity or community.\n2020, Nina Kahn, The Joy of Hex: Modern Spells Without All the Bullsh*t, unnumbered pages:\nThese more general spells and rituals can also be helpful for baby witches, who might want more time to practice before they hop into highly-specific spells.\n2020, Jane Kolven, The Holiday Detour, unnumbered page:\nThat was even worse than blurting my sexuality like I had when I was what we called a “baby dyke” in college, desperate to find other lesbians for friendship or more.\n2021, Yve Rees, quoted in Sam Elkin & Yve Rees, \"Spilling the T\", Bent Street: Australian LGBTIQA+ Arts, Writing & Ideas, Volume 5, Issue 1, unnumbered page:\nAs someone who is still a 'baby trans', these collaborations have taught me so much about what it means to live outside cisnormativity." } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(of vegetables, etc.) Picked when small and immature (as in baby corn, baby potatoes)." }, { "mean": "Newest (overall, or in some group or state), most inexperienced.\n1894, Marion Harland, The Royal Road, Or, Taking Him at His Word, page 136:\nMrs. Paull held out her hand to the babyest of the quartette, as they tiptoed up to the bed. “Lift her up, please, Marie!” she said, motioning to the place enclosed by her arm. When the rosy cheek touched hers upon the pillow, she asked ...\n1910, Marion Harland, Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life, page 408:\nThat evening, we grouped about the fire in the parlor, a wide circle that left room for the babyest of the party to disport themselves upon the rug, in the glow of the grate piled with cannel coal.\n2006, Marion Halligan, The Apricot Colonel, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN:Of when I was a baby editor. Very baby, it was actually a kind of work experience, I was still at university but I knew what I wanted. With a small independent publisher, good reputation, did some marvellous books, \n2020, Hannah Abigail Clarke, The Scapegracers, Erewhon, →ISBN, page 391: party for Halloween proper? Just the four of us and some goofy, spooky kids' movies, you know? Some cute pumpkin-shaped cupcakes? I could make my dog a little costume. He could be a baby witch. The babyest Scapegracer.” I blinked." }, { "mean": "(in the comparative or superlative) Like or pertaining to a baby, in size or youth; small, young.\n1888, Monthly Packet, page 170:\nSpider. Here let us begin at the beginning, at the babyest of books for Edith's nursery.\n1894, Edith E. Cuthell, Two Little Children and Ching, page 107:\nShe let it drop out of her sleeve, and it was two Chings — the dearest, littlest, babyest, tiny Chings — little balls of fur! And she ran away, and daddy's father picked them up, and put them in his pockets, and brought them home, \n1908, Marion Harland, Housekeeper's Guide and Family Physician, page 98:\nLemon-juice for ink spots: Not many weeks ago the babyest member of our household - perhaps moved by a hereditary tendency toward ink - slinging - divided the contents of an ink bottle impartially between the tiles of the bath-room floor ...\n1908, Mary Findlater, Jane Helen Findlater, Crossriggs, page 25:\n\"There's a babier baby than Mike,\" she said. \"But you will see her to-morrow. Aren't we rich? Come in and see Matilda - you won't find her much changed. It's so absurd to see her with all these children.\"\n1936, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs, To Promote the National Defense by Stengthening the Air Reserve, Hearings ..., on H.R. 4348, 12241, Feb 27, April 22, 1936, page 31:\nNow, we all believe in national defense, but we also believe in peacetime activity, and my personal idea about aviation is that it is still in its absolute “babyest” type of infancy, that it is nothing even approaching what it will be even 10 years .\n1937 August 7, “Recreation Activities in City Attain New Peak in Past Week”, in The State Journal, eighty-third year, Lansing, Mich., section “Doll Show at Allen”, page 2, column 7:A doll show held the attention of children at Allen as a special feature during the week. Winners were: baby-est doll, Betty McQueary.\n1940 October 22, Charles P. Stewart, “Washington At A Glance”, in The Evening Independent, volume LXXIV, number 130, Massillon, Oh., page five, column 2:He’ll be our baby senator for the next two years. Senator Rush D. Holt of West Virginia will be his baby rival briefly, but Rush is a lame duck. He’ll be out of the picture at the end of the year and Joe will be the baby-est of them all.\n1960 August 4, Herb Smith, “Recreation In Cedar Grove”, in Verona-Cedar Grove Times, volume XII, number 31, Verona, N.J., page 26, column 2:The victorious individuals were as follows: Doll Contest— “baby-est,” 1st, Mary Grew, 2nd, Susan Shamlian;\n2007 August 2, Liz Nicholls, “Gala to mark Teatro’s entry into the quarter-century club”, in Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alta., page D3, column 1:One of them, Allure Potemkin (and don’t you wish that was your name?), hikes up her slip and does a riotous dance number called Baby Legs. Leona Brausen, whose own dimpled gams — “baby-er than ever” as she says — inspired the role, is back onstage Saturday to dance the dance for the last time." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant.\n1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC: though he tried to be gruff and mature, he yielded to her and was glad to be babied.\n1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, \"Friction,\" \nThen the man effected measles and stayed off the job for six weeks, babying himself at home, though he lived just round the corner from my half-built house." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To tend (something) with care; to be overly attentive to (something), fuss over.\n1967, \"Mr. Mac and His Team,\" Time, 31 March, 1967, \nIn the past 27 years, \"Mr. Mac,\" as he is known to his 46,000 teammates, has built and babied his McDonnell Co. from nothing into a $1 billion-a-year corporation.\n1912, Linda Craig, interviewed by Theresa Forte, \"Tree and Twig farm — a treasure chest of heirloom tomatoes,\" Welland Tribune, 25 May, 2012, \nI have grown them for years and although some years are better than others, I have always had loads of tomatoes by not babying them, going easy on the water, and fertilizing with compost in the planting hole." } ] }, { "name": "Derived_terms", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb baby\nadult baby\nAIDS baby\nanchor baby\nanchor baby\nangel baby\nAsian baby girl\nbabies in the eyes\nbabify\nbabily\nbaby alarm\nbaby bangs\nbaby bar\nbaby bat\nbaby batter\nbaby beef\nBaby Bell\nbaby blue\nbaby blue eyes\nbaby blues\nbaby bok choy\nbaby bond\nbaby bonus\nbaby book\nbaby boom\nbaby boomer\nbaby boomlet\nbaby bottle, baby's bottle\nbaby bouncer\nbaby bouzouki\nbaby box\nbaby boy\nbaby brain\nbaby buggy\nbaby bump\nbaby bust\nbaby buster\nbaby capsule\nbaby carriage\nbaby carrier\nbaby carrot\nbaby change\nbaby changing 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