单词 | babyship |
释义 | babyshipn. 1. = babyhood n. 1. Cf. babeship n. Now rare.Only attested in dictionaries prior to the mid 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > baby or infant > [noun] > babyhood or infancy milkeOE barnagec1400 infancec1400 infancya1513 babeship1542 babehood1548 cradle1555 cradle-hood1599 baby agea1617 biggin1616 babyship1617 dentity1638 babyhood1748 babyism1798 paphood1837 babydom1853 infanthood1862 infantage1866 tottledom1889 toddlerhood1917 1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas Babiship, Infancie, & Childhood. 1693 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis (new ed.) 193 Babyship or Infancy. 1803 W. O. Pughe Geiriadur Cynmraeg a Saesoneg: Welsh & Eng. Dict. III Mabandawd, Babyship, infancy. 1839 J. Grant Walks & Wanderings World of Lit. II. 158 These are such common-place affairs in the annals of babyship. 1860 Ladies' Repository May 426 My own aunt Lucia,..set aside the claims of all others upon my babyship, and appropriated me entirely to herself through the first few years. 1907 Leslie's Monthly Mag. July 355 She found Bartholomew in the garden hanging on a fence-nail..and had brought him into the house to roll him upon the floor and generally to enjoy his babyship. 1962 N.Y. Amsterdam News 28 Apr. 9/4 An eight-year-old..shows a face just emerging from baby-hood, with the soft small chin the real give away on his late babyship. 2. With preceding possessive adjective: a mock title of respect given to a baby, esp. one considered to be excessively pampered; (also) such a title given to a person acting in an infantile manner.rare before mid 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > baby or infant > [noun] > personality of babyship1648 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. G8v Is't a trespasse if we three Sho'd wend along his Baby-ship to see? 1840 Trewman's Exeter Flying-post 19 Nov. Let his Royal babyship squall ever so loudly, the usual nursery endearments are forbidden. 1866 Chatterbox 1 Dec. 2/2 Baby's man-at-arms is mother, And she watches all day long; When his babyship would slumber, Then she sings a loving song. 1890 A. Conan Doyle White Company (1894) iv. 49 What is amiss with the song, then? How has it offended your babyship? 1906 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 53 She plays for hours with her down at the shore, obeying her babyship's caprices with a meek subjection that is the outcome of sheer unhappiness. 1996 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 6 June 3 Natalie dared to walk by without picking up Her Babyship. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1617 |
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