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ˈcry-baby, n.
Also cry-babby.
[f. cry n. or v. stem.]
A derisive appellation for one who cries childishly.
1852A. Cary Clovernook 274 You had better be still, cry-baby. 1854M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine xiii. 180, I wouldn't be such a cry-baby, anyway. 1858A. Mayhew Paved with Gold i. iii. 51 Don't take on like that, for if the chaps see you they are sure to call you ‘cry-baby’. 1882Advance 18 May 317 Tom called him a cry-baby, because his eyes were always full of tears. 1891Sat. Rev. 21 Feb. 230/1, ‘I declare..that they're cry-baby chaps.’ 1922Joyce Ulysses 532 Crybabby! Crocodile tears! 1969I. & P. Opie Children's Games ii. 76 There was a girl..with the reputation of a cry-baby.
Hence cry-baby v. intr. U.S. colloq.
1902O. Wister Virginian vii. 85, I am not crybabying to the judge. 1966H. Kemelman Saturday the Rabbi went Hungry (1967) xxvii. 181 I'd be the last one to crybaby on it. |