babysitter
noun/ˈbeɪ̯biˌsɪtə/UK/ˈbeɪ̯biˌsɪtɚ/US/ˈbæ̝ɪ̯biˌsɪtɚ/
Etymology
From baby + sitter.
- inherited from sitter
Definitions
A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place…
A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians.
- My neighbor is sometimes a babysitter for other mothers’ children.
A person who has to watch or attend to anything or anyone unnecessarily closely
A person who has to watch or attend to anything or anyone unnecessarily closely; a coddler or handholder.
- He said he did not want to be on tenterhooks worrying about us and having to act as a babysitter for grown men.
The neighborhood
- neighborbirdsitter
- neighborcatsitter
- neighbordogsitter
- neighborhomesitter
- neighborhouse-sitter
- neighborpetsitter
- neighborpuppysitter
- neighbornanny
- neighbornurse
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for babysitter. 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