| 单词 | newborn babe |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnewborn babe 1. A very young child; a baby. Formerly also: †a child of any age (obsolete). Now chiefly literary and somewhat archaic, often in fixed phrases, as newborn babe, babe in arms n. at Phrases.See also fear-, scare-babe at the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > baby or infant > [noun] childOE baban?c1225 fauntekin1377 infant1382 babea1393 fauntelet1393 babyc1400 lakinc1440 mop1440 chrisomer1574 tenderling1587 chrisom1596 childling1648 flosculet1648 bratling1652 lullaby-cheat1665 strangera1674 child (also infant, baby) in armsa1675 hoppet1695 tot1725 bambino1761 weanie1786 tiny1797 dot1800 trudgeon1814 toddle1825 toddles1828 yearnling1829 dab1833 toddler1837 baba1841 arrival1846 teeny-tiny1849 toddlekins1852 mite1853 trot1854 babelet1856 nestler1866 spoon-child1868 bubby1885 chavvy1886 bub1889 kiddy1889 toddleskin1890 newborn1893 kidlet1899 kidling1899 bubba1906 bundle of joy1924 liddly1929 mammet1932 snork1941 kiddywink1957 sproglet1987 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. l. 320 How this Babe al blody crieth. a1450 York Plays (1885) 445 (MED) This babb in my narmes for to inbrace. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xvi. 199 Alas, my bab, myn innocent. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 107 My bony baib with the rwch brylȝoun. ?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman ii. xi. sig. i.ijv Blessed of god from his babes age. 1590 R. Harvey Theol. Disc. Lamb of God 185 Thou art nothing but Esau in euery part, and so will prooue in soule as thou art already in body, vnlesse thou become a newborne babe in innocencie and concerning malice. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 30 Finger of Birth-strangled Babe [rhymes drab, slab] . View more context for this quotation a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Worc. 169 His Mother..lay down her burthen at Elmeley..where this bouncing babe Bonner was born. 1727 J. Gay Fables I. iii. 10 Your precious babe is hence convey'd, And in the place a changeling laid. 1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 381 Kiss'd her thoughtless babes with many a tear. 1823 J. Neal Errata I. xii. 192 And slept as tranquilly there, as a babe would. 1863 Banffshire Jrnl. 12 May 6 Her wee babe has got a fa'. 1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. i. 2 The newborn babe begins his earthly course with a wail. 1914 T. S. Eliot Let. 27 Nov. (1988) I. 72 The whole history of the foul abduction of her husband and her babe from their station in Kashmeer. 1963 A. Kuhn Study of Society ii. 14 Move aimlessly in response to inner urges, like the newborn babe or the proverbial headless chicken. 2005 J. M. Coetzee Slow Man ii. 14 The truth is that he has no such desires. His heart is as pure as a babe's. < as lemmas |
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