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babyings

babyings is the plural of babying.

Meaning of babying

Noun

babying (plural babyings)

  1. 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

Questions about babyings

What is babyings the plural of?
Babyings is the plural of babying.

Words near babyings in the dictionary

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

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