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Antonyms for babied

Grammar : Verb
Spell : bey-bee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbeɪ bi

Definition of babied

Origin :
  • late 14c., babi, diminutive of baban (see babe + -y (3)). Meaning "childish adult person" is from c.1600. Meaning "youngest of a group" is from 1897. As a term of endearment for one's lover it is attested perhaps as early as 1839, certainly by 1901; its popularity perhaps boosted by baby vamp "a popular girl," student slang from c.1922. As an adjective, by 1750.
  • Baby food is from 1833. Baby blues for "blue eyes" recorded by 1892 (the phrase also was used for "postpartum depression" 1950s-60s). To empty the baby out with the bath (water) is first recorded 1909 in G.B. Shaw (cf. German das Kind mit dem Bade ausschütten). Baby's breath (noted for sweet smell, which also was supposed to attract cats) as a type of flower is from 1897. French bébé (19c.) is from English.
  • verb treat like a child
Example sentences :
  • Had she dared, she would have babied Martin to an even greater extent than she did.
  • Extract from : « The Wall Between » by Sara Ware Bassett
  • We babied him abominably—he was, for two years, the only subject we had for such malpractice.
  • Extract from : « Modern Essays » by John Macy
  • Why I'm just beginning to feel like myself; I see how it is, I've been petted and babied too long.
  • Extract from : « Little Wolf » by M. A. Cornelius
  • When his feet got well—I had toadied and babied him so—he was plum ruined.
  • Extract from : « The Outlet » by Andy Adams
  • Harriet insisted that she did not wish to be "babied," but, the guardian was firm.
  • Extract from : « The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea » by Janet Aldridge
  • It's nonsense for a great hot-blooded clown, like me to be babied with a fire.
  • Extract from : « Bad Hugh » by Mary Jane Holmes
  • Then he added, as he put a live coal in the pipe: "I s'pose you went an' babied him an' spoiled it all."
  • Extract from : « The Court of Boyville » by William Allen White
  • Mike dearly loved cauliflowers, and babied ours as a flower gardener babies his hybrid tea roses.
  • Extract from : « The Idyl of Twin Fires » by Walter Prichard Eaton
  • Mrs.Robinson had always been babied by the girls, and that she was very nervous her whole family knew too well.
  • Extract from : « The Motor Girls at Lookout Beach » by Margaret Penrose
  • I hoped that somehow we wouldn't have to spend that Martian anniversary being congratulated and petted and babied.
  • Extract from : « The Statue » by Mari Wolf

Synonyms for babied

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