Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word baby. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in baby.
Definitions and meaning of baby
baby
Etymology
From Middle Englishbaby, babie(“baby”), a diminutive form of babe(“babe, baby”), equivalent to babe + -y/-ie(“endearing and diminutive suffix”). Perhaps ultimately imitative of baby talk (compare babble).
Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: bā'bē, IPA(key): /ˈbeɪbi/
Rhymes: -eɪbi
Noun
baby (pluralbabies)
A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
A very young human, even if not yet born.
Any very young animal, especially a vertebrate; many species have specific names for their babies, such as kittens for the babies of cats, puppies for the babies of dogs, and chicks for the babies of birds. See Category:Baby animals for more.
A person who is immature, infantile or feeble.
A person who is new to or inexperienced in something.
The lastborn of a family; the youngest sibling, irrespective of age.
A person's romantic partner; a term of endearment used to refer to or address one's girlfriend, boyfriend or spouse.
(informal)A form of address to a person considered to be attractive.
A concept or creation endeared by its creator.
A pet project or responsibility.
An affectionate term for anything.
(archaic) A small image of an infant; a doll.
(often attributive) One who is new to an identity or community.
2021, Yve Rees, quoted in Sam Elkin & Yve Rees, "Spilling the T", Bent Street: Australian LGBTIQA+ Arts, Writing & Ideas, Volume 5, Issue 1, unnumbered page:
As someone who is still a 'baby trans', these collaborations have taught me so much about what it means to live outside cisnormativity.
Synonyms
(young human being):babe, babby, babbie, infant, see also Thesaurus:baby
(young animal): see Thesaurus:youngling
(immature or infantile person):big baby
(term of endearment):love, see also Thesaurus:sweetheart
(of vegetables, etc.) Picked when small and immature (as in baby corn, baby potatoes).
Newest (overall, or in some group or state); most inexperienced.
(in the comparative or superlative) Like or pertaining to a baby, in size or youth; small, young.
Further reading
Raphael Sappan (1987) The Rhetorical-logical Classification of Semantic Changes, volume 5, page 58: “Baby. In its attributive uses, the word has the meaning 'small, tiny'. In the following sentence it is a metonym, still preserving its relation to the original meaning: “There is a babier baby than M.” (in the entry baby of the first volume of […]”
Verb
baby (third-person singular simple presentbabies, present participlebabying, simple past and past participlebabied)
(transitive) To coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant.
(transitive) To tend (something) with care; to be overly attentive to (something), fuss over.
1912, Linda Craig, interviewed by Theresa Forte, "Tree and Twig farm — a treasure chest of heirloom tomatoes," Welland Tribune, 25 May, 2012, [3]
I have grown them for years and although some years are better than others, I have always had loads of tomatoes by not babying them, going easy on the water, and fertilizing with compost in the planting hole.
This spelling should preferably be used in nominative only as it does not fit into any standard inflection scheme.
Synonyms
(very young human)vauva
(term of endearment)kulta
Further reading
“baby”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishbaby, from Middle Englishbaby.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ba.bi/
Noun
babym (pluralbabys)
table soccer, table football
baby, darling, sweetheart
Mary Jane shoes
Further reading
“baby”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua
Noun
baby
baby
Synonyms
bebe
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Englishbaby.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈbɛ.bi/, (careful style)/ˈbe.bi/
Rhymes: -ɛbi, (careful style)-ebi
Noun
babym (invariable)
child, baby, neonate
a small shot of whisky
tripod for a film camera
Adjective
baby (invariable)
for use by young children
very young
References
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈbabɨ/
Etymology 1
From GermanBaby, from Englishbaby.
Noun
babym pers or n ?
baby (infant)
Synonym:góletko
Declension
As a masculine noun:
As a neuter noun, indeclinable.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
baby
inflection of baba:
genitive singular
nominative/accusative plural
Middle English
Alternative forms
babee, babi, babie
Etymology
From babe + -y.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈbaːbiː/, /ˈbabiː/
Noun
baby
(rare) A child or baby.
Descendants
English: baby, babby, babbie (see there for further descendants)
Scots: babbie
References
“bābe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.