Definitions

n. 1
A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
n. 2
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.
Her baby had always been active, even before he was born, when he would kick her bladder.
v. 1
To coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant.
adj. 1
Picked when small and immature (as in baby corn, baby potatoes).

Related words

Word family: babe
Phrases: sugar baby baby carriage baby buggy baby talk baby blue baby's bottle sow's baby boomerang baby
Is a kind of: child
Other spellings: babby US bby

Plural: babies → darlings, loves, dolls, sweethearts…
Past participle: babied
e.g. babied → coddled, indulged, pampered, cockered…

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

3 letters: pet¹, bae¹, bab¹
4 letters: love¹, dear¹, doll¹, babe¹, lass¹
5 letters: child¹, sugar², honey², lover², humor², flame¹, spoil¹
6 letters: infant², humour², coward², pamper², cocker², dearie, coddle², cosset²
7 letters: beloved², darling², sweetie², indulge², dearest², papoose, babyish³, dilling²
8 letters: suckling², nursling, bantling
9 letters: offspring², infantile³, youngling, infantine
10 letters: sweetheart²
11 letters: mollycoddle⁴

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sugar² = 2 syllables).