baby

• POS: Adjective, Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: ba=by
• COUNT in NET: 25 in 24 verses (in OT : 20 in 18 verses) (in NT : 5 in 6 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

baby, n. [Dim. of babe.].

•  An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.  [1913 Webster]
•  A small image of an infant; a doll.  [1913 Webster]

  "She clung about his neck, gave him ten kisses,
  Toyed with his locks, looked babies in his eyes."  [1913 Webster]

Babies in the eyes, the minute reflection which one sees of one's self in the eyes of another.

baby, a. 

 Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant; young or little; as, baby swans.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

baby, v. t. 

 To treat like a young child; to keep dependent; to humor; to fondle.  Young.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

baby, n. & v.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 a very young child or infant, esp. one not yet able to walk.
2 an unduly childish person (is a baby about injections).
3 the youngest member of a family, team, etc.
4 (often attrib.) a a young or newly born animal. b a thing that is small of its kind (baby car; baby rose).
5 sl. a young woman; a sweetheart (often as a form of address).
6 sl. a person or thing regarded with affection or familiarity.
7 one's own responsibility, invention, concern, achievement, etc., regarded in a personal way.
--v.tr. (-ies, -ied)
1 treat like a baby.
2 pamper.

Idiom

baby boom colloq. a temporary marked increase in the birthrate. baby boomer a person born during a baby boom, esp. after the war of 1939-45. baby-bouncer Brit. a frame supported by elastic or springs, into which a child is harnessed to exercise its limbs. Baby Buggy (pl. -ies) Brit. propr. a kind of child's collapsible pushchair. baby carriage US a pram. baby grand the smallest size of grand piano. baby-snatcher colloq.
1 a person who kidnaps babies.
2 = cradle-snatcher. baby-talk childish talk used by or to young children. baby-walker a wheeled frame in which a baby learns to walk. carry (or hold) the baby bear unwelcome responsibility. throw away the baby with the bath-water reject the essential with the inessential.

Derivative

babyhood n.

Etymology

ME, formed as BABE, -Y(2)

THESAURUS

baby

Elzevir, Milquetoast, adolescent, angel, apprentice, babe, babish, baby bunting, baby-doll, baby-sized, babyish, bambino, bantam, bantling, banty, beginner, big baby, broad, buttercup, catechumen, cater to, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicken liver, child, cocker, coddle, colleen, compact, cosset, cotton, coward, crybaby, cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel, darling, dear, deary, deb, debutant, demoiselle, diminutive, doll, doll-like, dollish, doormat, dote, dry-nurse, duck, duckling, dull tool, duodecimo, entrant, favor, filly, flame, fledgling, fraid-cat, fraidy-cat, frail, freshman, funk, funker, gal, girl, girlie, gratify, greenhorn, greeny, gutless wonder, handy, heifer, hon, honey, honey bunch, honey child, hopeful, hoyden, humor, in arms, in diapers, in nappies, in swaddling clothes, in the cradle, inamorata, incubator baby, indulge, infant, infantile, infantine, invertebrate, jellyfish, jeune fille, jill, junior, junior miss, juvenal, juvenile, kittenish, ladylove, lamb, lambkin, lass, lassie, learner, lightweight, lily liver, little angel, little darling, little missy, little one, love, lover, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, meek soul, mewling infant, microcosm, milksop, mini, miniature, miniaturized, minikin, minimal, minny, minor, minuscule, miss, missy, mollycoddle, mouse, namby-pamby, nebbish, neonatal, neonate, neophyte, nestling, newborn, newcomer, nonentity, novice, novitiate, nursling, nymphet, pamper, pansy, pantywaist, papoose, pet, petkins, piece, please, pocket, pocket-sized, pony, precious, precious heart, preemie, premature baby, preschooler, probationer, pubescent, puling infant, puppet, pushover, raw recruit, recruit, romp, rookie, sad sack, sapling, satisfy, scaredy-cat, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, sissy, skirt, slip, small-scale, snookums, softling, softy, sop, spoil, sprig, steady, stripling, subdeb, subdebutante, subminiature, subteen, subteener, suckling, sugar, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetkins, sweets, teenager, teener, teenybopper, tenderfoot, toddler, tomato, tomboy, tot, toy, trainee, truelove, twelvemo, tyro, vest-pocket, virgin, weak sister, weakling, weanling, wench, wet-nurse, white feather, white liver, yearling, young creature, young hopeful, young person, young thing, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth

ROGET THESAURUS

baby

Infant

N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens, infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.

Fool

N fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass, ninny, ninnyhammer, chowderhead, chucklehead, dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl, goose, goosecap, imbecile, gaby, radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany, trifler, babbler, pretty fellow, natural, niais, child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop, oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony, bull head, dunderhead, addlehead, blockhead, dullhead, loggerhead, jolthead, jolterhead, beetlehead, beetlebrain, grosshead, muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead, numbskull, thickskull, lackbrain, shallowbrain, dimwit, halfwit, lackwit, dunderpate, lunkhead sawney, gowk, clod, clod-hopper, clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate, bull calf, gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube, men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham, un sot a triple etage, sot, jobbernowl, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche, dotard, driveler, old fogey, old woman, crock, crone, grandmother, cotquean, henhussy, incompetent (insanity), greenhorn, dunce, lubber, madman, one who will not set the Thames on fire, one who did not invent gunpowder, qui n'a pas invente' la poudre, no conjuror, fortuna favet fatuis, les fous font les festinas et les sages les mangen, nomina stultorum parietibus harrent, stultorum plena sunt omnia.