babe

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 bāb

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A baby or infant; a very young human or animal. literary,poetic
    — These events came to pass when he was but a babe.
  2. An attractive person, especially a young woman. slang
    — She's a real babe!
  3. A darling (a term of endearment). endearing
    — Hey, babe, how's about you and me getting together?

词形变化

babes plural

词汇关系

近义词
doll fox See: Thesaurus:beautiful woman beautiful person
衍生词
babealicious babehood babe-in-a-cradle babe in arms babe in the wood babe in the woods babeish babelet babelike babe magnet babeship babish bikini babe Blair's babes booth babe Busby Babe Cumberbabe cyberbabe grandbabe hog-babe innocent as a newborn babe innocent as the babe unborn out of the mouths of babes out of the mouths of babes and sucklings pit babe scare-babe spokesbabe superbabe

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.
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