baby
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2.8
- noun
- /ˈbeɪbi/
- Offensive
:
niñato
- It's just a game, don't be such a baby.
Anyway, I remember thinking I'm a baby in skill compared to you.
- Anyway, I remember thinking I'm a baby in skill compared to you.
- He never, he's, he's never a baby about the rules.
- Oh my man, She cried like a baby.
- Men are the biggest ball baby titty babies.
- So, yeah, I just, I just have to be a baby and not a sugar.
- You got the most acute baby syndrome and a man I've ever seen.
Examples
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Stop acting like a baby and take responsibility for your actions.
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You're such a baby.
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Treated me like a baby all the time.
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No, we are not gonna stand around this food court crying like a bunch of babies.
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Oh, don't be such a baby.
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"Well, go home to Mummy then, if you're going to be such a baby," Sarah said.
Fiction book (1994) -
He always throws a fit over little things; he really is just a big baby.
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When she didn't get invited to the party, she started complaining like a baby.
Synonyms
∞
2.8
A person who behaves in a silly or not grown-up way
168
4.6
A child who behaves badly and annoys others
28
5.0
A person who acts like a child by being very sensitive or complaining
1
8.4
An adult man who behaves like a child
An insulting word for a person who complains a lot and acts like a child
Antonyms
Idioms
4
8.1
To get rid of something valuable while removing something bad
- Informal
1
9.1
Being the only person who must deal with a problem after others avoid it
- Informal
1
8.8
To have the only responsibility for a hard problem when others avoid it
Compounds
- Offensive
11
9.9
An insulting name for a person who kills or is accused of killing babies
8
1.4
A small cart with four wheels that you push to carry a baby who is lying down or sitting
5
3.5
People in the United States born between 1946 and 1964 when birth rates rose after World War II
- Informal
3
4.2
A baby that doctors make from an egg and sperm outside the mother's body and put in her womb
- South African
1
8.4
A small animal from Africa that is active at night with big eyes and a long tail
- Slang
1
9.9
A person who grows up with parents active in communist or socialist politics
- Offensive
An insulting word for someone with a very small penis or who acts like a child
- Jargon
A habit of preferring the first way you learn and resisting later changes
- Specialized
A small rose bush that grows strongly and makes many small flowers used for hedges and grafting
A small creeping plant with many tiny round leaves used as a houseplant or ground cover
- Offensive
An insulting word for a person who complains a lot and acts like a child
How Childish
Surface Forms
Etymology
Baby A common idea is that baby comes from early 'baby talk' like baba or ba, the sounds of a small child. That's why calling someone a baby can mean they act immature or like a child.