BABIED

BABY

pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge

(verb) treat with excessive indulgence; “grandparents often pamper the children”; “Let’s not mollycoddle our students!”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

babied

simple past tense and past participle of baby

Adjective

babied (comparative more babied, superlative most babied)

Spoiled or coddled.

Source: Wiktionary


BABY

Ba"by, n.; pl. Babies. Etym: [Dim. of babe]

Definition: An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.

2. A small image of an infant; a doll. Babies in the eyes, the minute reflection which one sees of one's self in the eyes of another. She clung about his neck, gave him ten kisses, Toyed with his locks, looked babies in his eyes. Heywood.

Ba"by, a.

Definition: Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant; young or little; as, baby swans. "Baby figure" Shak.

Ba"by, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Babied (p. pr. & vb. n.Babying.]

Definition: To treat like a young child; to keep dependent; to humor; to fondle. Young.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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