JL ? 3 (informal) an
attractive young woman t£ A #J lift A D3S51 a ,babe
in 'arms (old-fashioned)
a very small baby that cannot yet walk W3IJL
— more
at mouth n.
babel /'beibl/ noun [sing.]
(formal) the sound of many voices talking at
one time, especially when more than one language is being spoken ( it
js i# ^ # i#
If. ) M-.hcWt From the Bible story
in which God punished the people who were trying to build a tower to reach
heaven (the tower of Babel) by making them unable to understand each others’
languages, i® g <CJs ftlo t&Afcl&iSii3c-MBSiJJ£ (the tower of Babel
) ,
,babes in the ‘wood noun [pi.] innocent people
who are easily tricked or harmed {jj ffl. H $} A;
[tfj
A r»T;Tfgn?1 From a children’s
story about a boy and a girl who are left alone in a wood where they die and a
bird covers them with leaves, i® i M , — 3X.I! ft H
ba boon /ba'buin;
NAmE bae'b-/ noun a large African or Asian monkey with a long face like a
dog’s
baby /’baibu:/ noun
(IndE) a person who works in an office
ba-bushka /ba'bujka; 'baebujka/ noun
(from Russian)
1
a Russian old woman or grandmother ( M JP’
$T )
2 a traditional Russian
woman’s headscarf, tied under the
chin
baby /'beibi/ noun,
adj., verb
m noun (pi. -ies) 1 a very young child
or animal §3JL; if) $]%)]&: The baby’s crying! J l |E 9c ! o a newborn
baby §\ A J.L 0 My sister’s expecting a
baby. MMff ?To O She had a baby last year. o a baby boy/girl j§f£; ft 3? 0 baby food/clothes
|£JL # & / IR o a baby monkeyA)lackbird #)%%; M ®l It
2
(informal) the youngest member of a family or group
( : He’s the baby of the
team. #,|E3 (disapproving) a person who behaves like
a young child and is easily upset £fj ft A; fAT A W A: Stop crying and don’t be
such a baby. $] 7 ,
Si] & 'A & 7 H« 4
(slang, especially NAmE) a
word used to address sb,
especially your wife, husband or lover, in a way that expresses affection but
that can be offensive if used by a man to a woman he does not know (^gAW’it.
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be your/sb’s baby (informal) to be a plan or
project that sb is responsible for and cares about because they have created it
( if
$ ) leave sb holding the
'baby (informal) to suddenly make sb
responsible for sth important that is really your responsibility (^^)|EfiA^ff]t^n^A: He
changed to another job and we were left holding the baby. f&f&TXff, throw the baby
out
with the 'bathwater (informaf) to lose sth that you
want at the same time as you are trying to get rid of sth that you do not want —more
at CANDY, SLEEP V.
i9!
adj. [only before noun] baby vegetables are a very small version
of particular vegetables, or are picked when they are very small ( sfc ■) /h M W , it ifj: baby
carrots K
h verb (ba bies, babying, ba bied, ba bied) [VN] to treat sb with
too much care, as if they were a baby 3? J L J!£
,baby 'blue adj. very pale blue in
colour ►
,haby 'blue noun [U]
'baby
blues noun [pi.] (informal) a depressed feeling that some women get after
the birth of a baby fs
EVJTt POST-NATAL DEPRESSION
'baby boom noun a period when many
more babies are bom than usual ( M )
'baby
boomer (NAmE also boomer) noun a person born during
a baby boom, especially after the Second World War (
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