| 单词 | baby talk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbaby talk baby talk n. the imperfect speech of a young child; the speech of an adult or older child imitating this, typically used when speaking to young children or pets; (more generally) nonsense. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [noun] > speech of a baby baby talk1788 1788 Amer. Mag. May 367/2 The silly language called baby-talk in which most people are initiated in infancy, often breaks out in discourse, at the age of forty. 1845 M. Fuller in N.-Y. Daily Tribune 5 Feb. 1/1 To talk baby-talk, with malice prepense, and to give shallow accounts of deep things. 1861 M. B. Chesnut Diary 25 Nov. in C. V. Woodward Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1981) x. 242 To me this calm, monotonous baby talk is maddening. 1933 E. A. Robertson Ordinary Families x. 215 ‘Pore ole pussycat!’ Dru would lapse into baby-talk. 2008 S. Toltz Fraction of Whole i. 55 My mother tried to console her son..by infantilising him—..trying to snuggle him, speaking to him in baby talk. < as lemmas |
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