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babe

noun
/beɪb/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰā- Proto-Germanic *bō-redup. Proto-Germanic *babô Proto-West Germanic *babō Old English *baba Middle English babe English babe From Middle English babe, a variant of earlier baban, perhaps from Old English *baba (“boy, child”), from Proto-West Germanic *babō, from Proto-Germanic *babô, reduplicated variant of *ba-, *bō- (“father, brother, close male relation”). cognates and related terms Related to Old Frisian bobba (“child”) (whence North Frisian babbe, babb, babe (“child”)), Old High German Babo (a male forename), see boy. Otherwise, origin obscure. Compare mama, dada, papa. Welsh baban (“baby”), believed by Skeat to be a mutation of maban, a diminutive of mab (“son”), is probably rather a borrowing from English. Cognate also with English bub.

  1. inherited from *babô✻
  2. inherited from *babō✻
  3. inherited from *baba✻ — “boy, child”
  4. inherited from babe

Definitions

  1. A baby or infant

    A baby or infant; a very young human or animal.

    • These events came to pass when he was but a babe.
    • Though he possess sweet babes and loving wife, A home of peace by loyal friendships cheered, And love them more than death or happy life,

  2. An attractive person, especially a young woman.

    • She's a real babe!

  3. A darling (a term of endearment).

    • Hey, babe, how's about you and me getting together?
    • But, Babe, you don't have to meet 'em if you don't want to.
    • But they don't know that your sweet loving, babe Was here when all my friends were gone
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A male given name or nickname

      • Ruth was called “Babe” because of his youth (and baby face) when he signed with the Boston Red Sox in 1914 at age nineteen. He was also called “Bambino”—Italian for baby.

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Derived

babealicious, babehood, babe-in-a-cradle, babe in arms, babe in the wood, babe in the woods, babeish, babelet, babelike, babe magnet, babeship, babish, bikini babe, Blair's babes, booth babe, Busby Babe, Cumberbabe, cyberbabe, grandbabe, hog-babe, innocent as a newborn babe, innocent as the babe unborn, out of the mouths of babes, out of the mouths of babes and sucklings, pit babe, scare-babe, spokesbabe, superbabe

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for babe. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA