[
US
/ˈbeɪbiɪʃ/
]
[ UK /bˈeɪbɪɪʃ/ ]
[ UK /bˈeɪbɪɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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characteristic of a baby
babyish tears and petulance
How To Use babyish In A Sentence
- Though the change was slight, he saw that they had both lost a little of their babyishness.
- Don't be surprised if there's some deterioration in your child's behaviour or a regression to more babyish ways.
- I like this baby bedding set at Overstock.com but it's not very 'babyish' in the sense of bunnies, teddy bears, bouncing frogs and whatnot. Archive 2009-02-01
- Haigh does not say so, but this is actually rather babyish.
- I'm trying to bring him up properly - teasing him out of his babyishness, and making him stand on his own feet. Five Go To Billycock Hill
- Her designs are playful, and even ‘cheeky,’ but never babyishly girly.
- Oh and then just the pure babyishness of the adolescent politics in the damn thing. Intertribal: the good thing is, I kept thinking of movies I liked, not movies I hated
- If the present goverment is 'babyish', then how about gracing us with an adjective for the now dead-and-buried ex MLP goverments! Timesofmalta.com
- The press could be being babyish; the military could be putting on a brave face.
- But I suppose a boy thinks he is called babyish, if the name is fastened on him. Holiday Stories for Young People