Babe Defined, Meanings and Uses of the word.
As per Dictionary.com:
8 dictionary results for: babe –noun
- 1. a baby or child.
- 2. an innocent or inexperienced person.
- 3. (usually initial capital letter) Southern U.S. (used, often before the surname, as a familiar name for a boy or man, esp. the youngest of a family.)
- 4. Slang.
- a. Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. a girl or woman, esp. an attractive one.
b. (sometimes initial capital letter) an affectionate or familiar term of address (sometimes offensive when used to strangers, casual acquaintances, subordinates, etc., esp. by a male to a female).
—Idiom
- 5. babe in the woods, an innocent, unsuspecting person, esp. one likely to be victimized by others: Some highly informed people are mere babes in the woods where the stock market is concerned. Also, babe in the wood.
Origin: 1150–1200; 1915–20 for def. 4; ME; early ME baban, prob. nursery word in origin
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
Babe Ruth
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–noun
George Herman (“Babe”), 1895–1948, U.S. baseball player.
American Heritage Dictionary
babe (bab) Pronunciation Key
n.
- 1. A baby; an infant.
- 2. An innocent or naive person.
- 3. Slang A young woman.
- 4. Informal Sweetheart; dear. Used as a term of endearment.
[Middle English.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Online Etymology Dictionary
babe
1393, short for baban (c.1230), which probably is imitative of baby talk, however in many languages the cognate word means "old woman" (cf. Rus. babushka "grandmother," from baba "peasant woman"). Now mostly superseded by its dim. form baby. Used figuratively for "a childish person" from 1526. Meaning "attractive young woman" is 1915, college slang; related babelicious first recorded 1991.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet
babe
noun
- 1. a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk; "the baby began to cry again"; "she held the baby in her arms"; "it sounds simple, but when you have your own baby it is all so different" [syn: baby]
- 2. (slang) sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women [syn: baby]
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Babe
Babe\, n. [Cf. Ir. bab, baban, W. baban, maban.]
- 1. An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.
- 2. A doll for children. --Spenser.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Babe
used of children generally (Matt. 11:25; 21:16; Luke 10:21; Rom. 2:20). It is used also of those who are weak in Christian faith and knowledge
(1 Cor. 3:1; Heb. 5:13; 1 Pet. 2:2). In Isa. 3:4 the word "babes" refers to a succession of weak and wicked princes who reigned over Judah
from the death of Josiah downward to the destruction of Jerusalem.
Babe may refer to:
- Babe Adams (1882-1968), American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball (1906-1926)
- Babe Dye (1898–1962), Canadian professional ice hockey forward
- Babe Herman (1903-1987), American right fielder in Major League Baseball
- Babe Pinelli (1895–1984), American third baseman and umpire in Major League Baseball
- Babe Pratt (1916-1988), Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman
- Babe Ruth (1895–1948), American Major League baseball player (1914-1935)
- Babe Zaharias (1911–1956), American multi-sport female athlete, née Didrikson.
- Philip "Babe" Marchildon (1913–1997) Canadian Major League Baseball pitcher (1940-1950)
- Babe (Bragança), a Portuguese parish in the municipality of Bragança
- Babe (Sopot), village near Sopot in Serbia
- Babe (band), Serbian rock band
- BaBe, a Japanese J-Pop band
- "Babe" (song), a song on Styx's 1979 triple-platinum album Cornerstone
- "Babe" (Take That song), number one hit single by the UK boy band Take That
- Babe, title character of the Dick King-Smith book The Sheep-Pig and the two films
Babe (film), an Academy Award-winning 1995 Australian film and Babe: Pig in the City, the 1998 sequel.
- The Babe (film), 1992 film about famed baseball player Babe Ruth starring John Goodman
- Babe, 1975 TV movie biography of Babe Zaharias, starring Susan Clark and Alex Karras
- Babe (comics), a comic book by artist/writer John Byrne
- Babe the Blue Ox, the giant blue ox in the tall tales about the mythical lumberjack Paul Bunyan
- BaBe, Japanese singing duo from the 1980s.
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