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Definition: Babyish |
BabyishAdjective1. Characteristic of a baby; "babyish tears and petulance". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "babyish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Babyish has its own characters, being some geometric shapes, but was not used beyond illustration. It is transcripted in two ways:
| English | Babyish | Origin |
|---|---|---|
| Cat | Miao | Voice Alike |
| Dog | Wow | Voice alike in Cantonese |
| Rabbit | Zaza | Original |
| Panda | Siongmiao | Mandarin Chinese |
| Fish | Ör | Original |
| full (after meal) | báo | Cantonese |
| hungry (after meal) | mǐbáo | Cantonese |
| used | Yused | English |
| not used | Mǐyused | Cantonese+English |
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Babyish."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imbecility Folly | Childish, child-like; infantine, infantile, babyish, babish; puerile, anile; simple; (credulous); old-womanish. |
Infant | Adjective: infantine, infantile; puerile; boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish; baby; newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Babyish |
| English words defined with "babyish": Babish, Babyism. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "babyish": Babish. (references) |
| "Babyish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.63% of the time. "Babyish" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 90.63% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.38% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
babyish | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "babyish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | prej foshnje, foshnjarak (childly, infantine). (various references) | |
Arabic | طفلي (infantile), صبياني (boyish, childish, infantile, juvenile, puerile). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бебешки (baby), детински (childish, childlike, infantile, infantine, juvenile, puerile). (various references) | |
Chinese | 孩子似. (various references) | |
Czech | dìtinský (childish, immature, infantile, jejune, puerile). (various references) | |
French | puéril, enfantin. (various references) | |
German | kindlich (childish, childishly, childlike, filial, kiddy, puerile), babyhaft. (various references) | |
Greek | νηπιώδησ (infantile), μωρουδίστικοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | תי וקי (childish, infantile). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyermeteg (childlike, infantile, infantine, naïve, naive). (various references) | |
Indonesian | seperti bayi, kebayi-bayian. (various references) | |
Italian | bambinesco. (various references) | |
Korean | 치한. (various references) | |
Manx | oikanagh (babylike, infantile), lhiannooagh (babylike, boyish, infantile, puerile). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abyishbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | infantil (boyish, childish, childlike, infant, infantile, little, outage, puerile). (various references) | |
Romanian | pueril (childish, childishly, jejune, puerile), copilãros (babified, childish). (various references) | |
Russian | ребяческий (childish, puerile), детский (baby, childish, childlike, childly, infant, infantile). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | detinjast (childish, puerile). (various references) | |
Spanish | pueril (boyish, childish, puerile), infantil (baby, boyish, childhood, childish, childlike, children's, filially, infant, infantile, juvenile). (various references) | |
Swedish | barnslig (childish, childlike, childly, corny, immature, infantile, infantine, juvenile, puerile). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งเหมาะสำหรับเ"็กเล็ก, มีนิสัยเหมือนเ"็ก. (various references) | |
Turkish | bebeksi (baby, infantile), bebek gibi (doll-like, Dolly), çocuksu (boyish, childish, puerile), çocukça (boyish, childish, infantile, puerile). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | наївний (artless, innocent, naпve, unsophisticated), малечий (baby), простий (artless, austere, bald, bare, childlike, mere, onefold, ordinary, plain, primary, prime, run of the mill, shirt-sleeve, simple, stateless, straightforward, unaffected, unartful, unceremonious, unsophisticated), дитячий (baby, bairnish, childish, infant, infantile, puerile). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trẻ con (bantling, childish, puerile), như trẻ con (boyish). (various references) | |
Welsh | babiaidd, babanaidd (childish, childlike). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Babyish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abyis, babich, babyfish, babykins, Babyshh, Bayisa, bbcish, bibdish, bobish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "babyish" (pronounced 'Ba"by*ish'): Abolish, Accomplish, Admonish, Affamish, Aguish, Alish, Alumish, Amateurish, Anchoretish, Animalish, Apish, Arrish, Aspish, Assish, Astonish, Babish, Baboonish, Babylonish, Baddish, Balkish, Banish, Bardish, Basquish, Batfish, Bearish, Beauish, Bish, Bitterish, Blackish, Blandish, Blindfish, Blockish, Bluish, Bluntish, Boarfish, Boarish, Bobbish, Bogglish, Boobyish, Bookish, Boorish, Borough-English, Boyish, Brackish, Brainish, Brigandish, Brinish, Broadish, Brockish, Brownish. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-h-i-s-y" | |
-1 letter: shabby. | |
-2 letters: sahib. | |
-3 letters: abys, ashy, baby, bash, bays, bias, bibs, hays, isba, shay, sibb. | |
-4 letters: abs, aby, ais, ash, ays, bah, bas, bay, bib, bis, bys, has, hay, his, sab, say, sha, shy, sib, yah. | |
-5 letters: ab, ah, ai, as, ay, ba, bi, by, ha, hi, is, sh, si, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-b-h-i-s-y" | |
+1 letter: shabbily. | |
+5 letters: brushability. | |
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