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babehood

noun

Etymology

From babe + -hood.

  1. inherited from *babô✻
  2. inherited from *babō✻
  3. inherited from *baba✻ — “boy, child”
  4. inherited from babe
  5. suffixed as babehood — “babe + hood”

Definitions

  1. Babyhood.

    • There was grave doubt whether her fragile bud of babehood would resist the cold chill of that wintry world into which it had been prematurely ushered

  2. The quality of being a babe (attractive woman)

    • Despite the whole Yummy Mummy trend, I think a lot of women still put their babehood — the flamboyant, sexy, out-in-the-world side of themselves—under wraps when they get married and have kids and move to the suburbs.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for babehood. 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