pacifier
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1.4
- noun
- /ˈpæsɪfaɪər/
- US
:
chupete
- It's absolutely fine for a kid to use a pacifier up to age 3 for naps/nighttime.
- toys and pacifiers
- pacifiers and chewable toys
- pacifier or bottle
So we're going to hold, we're trying to hold off on the pacifier until the feeding gets down.
- So we're going to hold, we're trying to hold off on the pacifier until the feeding gets down.
- And then we have the pacifier clip.
- I want to, when do we come out with that pacifier that really shuts these kids down for a couple hours?
- So the whole thing about James's pacifier is that I really believe in allowing kids to have their comfort item.
- So I think it's great that it came out of pacifiers and sippy cups and toys and rubber duckies.
- A little pacifier picked out the scent as well.
- Yes, And that's when we bring out the pacifiers because I can't sit alone quietly in an empty room.
- Banning and Demon was a rave and the Rave Act trying to criminalize pacifiers and glow sticks as drug paraphernalia, for example.
- You stick a Binky in a baby's mouth, a pacifier that's a plasticizer that's got phthalates in it, that causes obesity.
Examples
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The baby fussed, and Katie pulled a pacifier from her pocket and thrust it between his lips.
Fiction book (2002) -
I would suggest you make one change at a time, either the pacifier or the diapers.
Blog text (26) -
When it's time to get off the pacifier, then you get rid of it.
Blog text (26) -
Will you hand me that pacifier?
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That one needs a pacifier.
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The use of a pacifier has also been noted in older, middle, and high school-aged children.
Academic text (2008) -
You gather all of the pacifiers up, and you never let her have them again.
Blog text (26) -
You can buy these little dummies or pacifiers that you can also squirt medicine into and your baby will suck the medicine down.
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Babies in strollers, for whom it was all legs and noise anyway, slept heavily or sucked on pacifiers.
Fiction book (1996) -
The baby fussed, so his mother quickly gave him a pacifier to calm him down.
Synonyms
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3.3
An object like a pacifier that calms a baby
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2.4
A small ring that babies chew to soothe sore gums
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2.4
A small rubber or plastic object a baby sucks to feel calm
A rubber or plastic thing a baby sucks to feel calm
Antonyms
How Calming
- US
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1.4
- Baby Talk
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8.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pacifier comes from pacify, with the root pax meaning 'peace', so a pacifier is the small object that gives a baby 'peace' or calm when they cry.