Baby

Definition

baby /'beÇbi/ n ၁။ (က) ေမြးကင္းစအရြယ္၊ ရင္ခြင္ပိုက္အရြယ္ ကေလး။ (တိရစၧာန္) အေကာင္ေပါက္စ။ Both mother and baby are doing well. ❍ a baby boy / girl ❍ a baby thrush/ monkey/ crocodile. (ခ) ( infml ) မိသားစုတြင္၊ အုပ္စုတြင္ အငယ္ဆံုး။ He's the baby of the team. (ဂ) ( derog ) ကေလးလိုလူ။ Stop crying and don't be such a baby. ၂။ ( sl esp US ) (ဇနီး၊ ခင္ပြန္း၊ ရည္းစား စသည္ကို ခ်စ္စႏိုးေခၚေသာ စကား)။ ၃။ အေသးေလး။ ေပါက္စေလး။ a baby car. v ( pt , pp babied ) ကေလးလိုယုယသည္။ ဂ႐ုစိုက္သည္။ Don't baby him—he's old enough to look after himself. ❏ baby boom n (စစ္ၿပီးစအခ်ိန္မ်ဳိး) ကေလးဖြားႏႈန္း တိုးေသာ ကာလ။ ❏ baby buggy n ၁။ ( Brit propr ) လက္တြန္း ကုလားထိုင္ တစ္မ်ဳိး။ ၂။ baby buggy ( US ) = PRAM ❏ baby carriage n ( US ) = PRAM ❏ baby grand n ပက္လက္စႏၵရားအေသး။ ❏ babyhood n [sing] (က) ကေလးအျဖစ္။ (ခ) ကေလးဘဝ။ ❏ babyish adj ကေလး၏။ ကေလးဆန္ေသာ။ ကေလး ႏွင့္ေလ်ာ္ေသာ။ Now that Ned can read he finds his early picture books too babyish. ❏ baby-minder n ( Brit ) ကေလးထိန္း။ ❏ baby-talk n [U] ခ်ဳိခ်ဳိ၊ မံမံ စသည္ကဲ့သို႔ေသာ ကေလးစကား။ ❏ baby tooth n (esp US ) = MILK-TOOTH ❏ be one's/ sb's baby [ IDM ] ( infml ) ရင္အုပ္မကြာ ျပဳစုထိန္းသိမ္းေစာင့္ေရွာက္ရမည့္ လုပ္ငန္း။ The whole project is your baby now. ❏ leave sb holding the baby [ IDM ] ( infml ) ကိုယ့္တာဝန္ ကို မ်က္ႏွာလႊဲခဲပစ္ သူမ်ားလက္ထဲထိုးခဲ့သည္။ His business partners were left holding the baby. ❏ throw the baby out with the bath water [ IDM ] အစုတ္စြန္႔ပစ္ရာ အေကာင္းေရာပါ။

Examples

1. May I hold the baby?
2. Their new baby daughter
3. [give birth to/have a baby] : I’m hoping to have the baby at home.
4. [be expecting/having a baby] : She’s expecting a baby in November.
5. A baby elephant
6. Baby seals
7. At 18
8. Owen was the baby of the team.
9. Don’t be such a big baby!
10. Steve has always seen the book as his baby.
11. What’s the matter
12. baby?