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babe

  [beyb]
–noun
1. 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, esp. the youngest of a family.)
4. Slang.
a. Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. a girl or woman, esp. 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., esp. by a male to a female).
—Idiom
5. babe in the woods, an innocent, unsuspecting person, esp. 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; ME; early ME baban, prob. nursery word in origin

Synonyms:
1. toddler, infant, tot, nursling.
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babe   (bāb)   
n.  

  1. A baby; an infant.

  2. An innocent or naive person.

  3. Slang A young woman.

  4. Informal Sweetheart; dear. Used as a term of endearment.


[Middle English.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
babe

  1. n.
    and babes. a term of endearment for a woman or a man. (Also a term of address. See also baby.) : Look, babe, get in there and tackle that guy! We're losing! , Hey, babes, let's us two get this done and head on home.
  2. n.
    a good-looking woman. : Who is that babe standing on the corner over there? , I saw you with that orange haired babe last night. What's the story?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

babe 
1393, short for baban (c.1230), which probably is imitative of baby talk, 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 Now mostly superseded by its dim.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 baby. Used figuratively for "a childish person" from 1526. Meaning "attractive young woman" is 1915, college slang; related babelicious first recorded 1991.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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