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noun
Idiom1.
a baby or child.
2.
an innocent or inexperienced person.
3.
(usually initial capital letter) Southern U.S. (used, often before the surname, as a familiar name for a boy or man, especially the youngest of a family.)
4.
Slang.
a.
Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. a girl or woman, especially an attractive one.
b.
(sometimes initial capital letter) an affectionate or familiar term of address (sometimes offensive when used to strangers, casual acquaintances, subordinates, etc., especially by a male to a female).
5.
babe in the woods, an innocent, unsuspecting person, especially one likely to be victimized by others: Some highly informed people are mere babes in the woods where the stock market is concerned. Also, babe in the wood.
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Origin:
1150–1200; 1915–20 for def. 4; Middle English; early Middle English baban, probably nursery word in origin
1150–1200; 1915–20 for def. 4; Middle English; early Middle English baban, probably nursery word in origin
Synonyms
1. toddler, infant, tot, nursling.
1. toddler, infant, tot, nursling.
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babe
late 14c., short for baban (early 13c.), which probably is imitative of baby talk (cf. babble), however in many languages the cognate word means "old woman" (cf. Rus. babushka "grandmother," from baba "peasant woman"). Now mostly superseded by its dim. form
EXPAND baby. Used figuratively for "a childish person" from 1520s. Meaning "attractive young woman" is 1915, college slang; related babelicious first recorded 1991.
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