babe

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n. 小孩, 天真幼稚的人

发音

US /beɪb/

词形变化

babes 复数 babes

别名

babes

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A baby or infant; a very young human or animal.

    文学 诗歌

    These events came to pass when he was but a babe.

  2. 2.

    An attractive person, especially a young woman.

    俚语

    She's a real babe!

  3. 3.

    Darling (term of endearment).

    Hey, babe, how's about you and me getting together?

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

baby infant

上位词 2

kid child

下位词 10

newborn suckling cherub foundling blue baby godchild neonate nurseling nursling papoose

相关短语

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词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰā- Proto-Germanic *bō-redup. Proto-Germanic *babô Proto-West Germanic *babō Old English *baba Middle English babe English babe From Middle English babe, a variant of earlier baban, perhaps from Old English *baba (“boy, child”), from Proto-West Germanic *babō, from Proto-Germanic *babô, reduplicated variant of *ba-, *bō- (“father, brother, close male relation”). cognates and related terms Related to Old Frisian bobba (“child”) (whence North Frisian babbe, babb, babe (“child”)), Old High German Babo (a male forename), see boy. Otherwise, origin obscure. Compare mama, dada, papa. Welsh baban (“baby”), believed by Skeat to be a mutation of maban, a diminutive of mab (“son”), is probably rather a borrowing from English. Cognate also with English bub.

来源：wiktionary