babying
babying is the present participle and gerund of baby.
Meaning of baby
Verb
baby (third-person singular simple present babies, present participle babying, simple past and past participle babied)
- To coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant.
- […] though he tried to be gruff and mature, he yielded to her and was glad to be babied.1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC
- To tend (something) with care; to be overly attentive to (something), fuss over.
- In the past 27 years, "Mr. Mac," as he is known to his 46,000 teammates, has built and babied his McDonnell Co. from nothing into a $1 billion-a-year corporation.1967 March 31, “Mr. Mac and His Team”, in Time
Noun
babying (plural babyings)
- The act of coddling or pampering somebody.
- She thought that if she had been beautiful instead of so plain then she might have made out better, but the plainness perhaps went the worst against her; it worked together with the babyings from an Indian; […]1976, Jean Rikhoff, The sweetwater, page 159
Forms of babying
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Phrases with babying
Questions about babying
- What does babying mean?
- Babying means the act of coddling or pampering somebody.
- What is babying the present participle and gerund of?
- Babying is the present participle and gerund of baby.
- What part of speech is babying?
- Babying is a noun.
- What is the plural of babying?
- The plural of babying is babyings.
Words near babying in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: babying (page history and authors); baby (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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