babying

English

Verb

babying

1. present participle and gerund of baby

Noun

babying (plural babyings)

1. The act of coddling or pampering somebody.
   • 1976, Jean Rikhoff, The sweetwater, page 159:

     She thought that if she had been beautiful instead of so plain then she might have made out better, but the plainness perhaps went the worst against her; it worked together with the babyings from an Indian; […]

Translations

act of coddling or pampering somebody

• Esperanto: dorlotado, karesemo
• French: cajolerie (fr) f, dorlotement (fr) m, pouponnage (fr) m