baby
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
baby/ˈbeɪbi/
▶noun (pl. babies)
- 1 a child or animal that is newly or recently born.
- 2 a timid or childish person.
- 3 informal a person with whom one is having a romantic relationship (often as a form of address).
– derivatives
babyhood noun.
babyhood noun.
– phrases
throw the baby out with the bathwater discard something valuable along with other things that are undesirable.
throw the baby out with the bathwater discard something valuable along with other things that are undesirable.
– origin ME: prob. imitative of an infant's first attempts at speech.
'baby' also found in these Oxford entries:
Achilles heel
- arm
- babby
- babe
- baby blue
- baby boom
- baby bouncer
- baby bust
- baby carriage
- baby-doll
- baby grand
- baby oil
- baby's breath
- baby walker
- bambino
- bear
- birth
- birthweight
- blue baby
- bootee
- bottle
- bottle-feed
- bouncing
- breastfeed
- breech birth
- bris
- broody
- buggy
- burp
- carrycot
- christen
- comforter
- cot
- cot death
- counting
- cradle
- crown
- cut
- dandle
- designer baby
- diaper
- dummy
- eclampsia
- escape
- forceps
- formula
- go-cart
- gypsophila
- high chair
