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babying up

babying up is the present participle and gerund of baby up.

Meaning of baby up

Verb

baby up (third-person singular simple present babies up, present participle babying up, simple past and past participle babied up)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To treat as a baby.
  2. (intransitive) To have babies or children to care for
    • I've been babied up for more than a decade.

Questions about babying up

What is babying up the present participle and gerund of?
Babying up is the present participle and gerund of baby up.

Words near babying up in the dictionary

  1. babygrow
  2. babygrows
  3. babyhood
  4. babyhoods
  5. babying
  6. babying up
  7. babyings
  8. babyish
  9. babyishly
  10. babyishness
  11. babyism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: babying up (page history and authors); baby up (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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