baby buggy
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈbeɪbi ˈbʌɡi/
- US
:
carrito de bebé
- As she strolled through the park, she pushed her little boy in a baby buggy beside her.
- pushing a baby buggy
- mothers with baby buggies
Examples
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And the girl, no more wanting to be married than Lute because marriage was an act of morality, repeated the vows of chastity and obedience out of hatred for her misshapen body that made her think that since she was ruined for love forever, it did not matter if she wore a wedding ring and pushed a baby buggy.
Fiction book (1995) -
Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
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And when, when I or the midwife went to the house, we would park this baby buggy outside.
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We won't need a baby buggy.
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About a mile from the restaurant, they saw the child Lauren on her own, pushing an empty baby buggy up a path.
Fiction book (1997) -
My grandmother caught the chicken, tied its legs, put it in the baby buggy with my mother, and trundled down the road a couple of miles.
Fiction book (1993) -
Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
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Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
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The little fellow, for example, who shares the baby buggy with the Schneider boy, was among the many orphans or sickly children taken in by the family.
Academic text (1991) -
Alice had wanted to photograph Lucinda in the meadowsweet back then, drive out to the mountains, park Lucinda's baby buggy in a whole field of meadowsweet, the baby looking back at her, and snap away.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
69
1.0
A small folding seat on wheels that you push a baby in
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2.1
A small wheeled seat that you push to carry a baby
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1.6
A small wheeled seat for carrying a baby when you walk
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1.4
A small cart with four wheels that you push to carry a baby who is lying down or sitting
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2.1
A small carriage on wheels for carrying a baby that you push
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6.5
A small four-wheeled vehicle an adult uses to push a baby
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8.9
A four-wheeled carriage that you push a baby in
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1.7
A small seat on wheels for pushing a baby or small child
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'baby' (a young child) with 'buggy' (a small wheeled vehicle); a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it refers to a small vehicle for carrying a baby. This is a straightforward noun–noun compound following common compositional patterns found across languages, so the sense is immediately inferable from the constituents.
Etymology
The compound baby buggy comes from the small light vehicle called a buggy and the word baby, so it literally meant a little buggy for a child. That's why it now means 'a small vehicle with four wheels' pushed by an adult to carry a young child.