babish
adj/ˈbeɪb.ɪʃ/
Etymology
Definitions
Like a babe
Like a babe; childish; babyish.
- Spoons, you know, are to feed us with weak and thin food, even with that which best suiteth with weak stomachs, or with a babish temper.
- For, if a young gentleman be demure and still of mature, they say he is simple and lacketh wit; if he be bashful, and will soon blush, they call him a babish and ill brought up thing;
- The rot of schools Of medieval time Is Christmas, a pleasing mime To babish minds, Its tinsel blinds The eyes of Thought, 'Tis rot, rot, all rot; And not for me !
To make or treat as babish.
- The Pharisees had babished the simple people with fained and colde religion, and had tangled theyr consciences with.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for babish. 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