baby
noun
[ ˈbeɪbi ]
• a very young child.
• "his wife's just had a baby"
Similar:
infant,
newborn,
child,
tot,
little one,
bairn,
sprog,
bundle of joy,
tiny,
babe,
babe in arms,
neonate,
• a lover or spouse (often as a form of address).
• "my baby left me for another guy"
Similar:
darling,
sweetheart,
dearest,
dear,
querida,
honey,
sweetie,
sugar,
honey pie,
sweetie pie,
cutie pie,
babe,
bae,
sweeting,
baby
adjective
• comparatively small or immature of its kind.
• "a baby version of the Oxford Movement"
Similar:
miniature,
mini,
little,
small,
small-scale,
scaled-down,
toy,
pocket,
midget,
dwarf,
fun-size,
wee,
vest-pocket,
teeny,
teeny-weeny,
teensy,
teensy-weensy,
weeny,
itsy-bitsy,
itty-bitty,
eensy,
eensy-weensy,
pint-sized,
bite-sized,
titchy,
tiddly,
little-bitty,
baby
verb
• treat (someone) as a baby; pamper or be overprotective towards.
• "her aunt babied her and fussed over her clothes"
Similar:
pamper,
mollycoddle,
spoil,
cosset,
coddle,
indulge,
overindulge,
pet,
wait on someone hand and foot,
overparent,
nanny,
pander to,
wrap in cotton wool,
feather-bed,
cocker,
Origin:
late Middle English: probably imitative of an infant's first attempts at speech.
