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  • verb Present participle of baby.

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Examples

  • And Sue, the Asian, doesn’t believe in babying any one.

    24 « October « 2009 « Dating Jesus 2009

  • And Sue, the Asian, doesn’t believe in babying any one.

    I’m pretty sure I’m offended by this — or, at the least, nonplussed « Dating Jesus 2009

  • I only have two children and am constantly accused by the older one of "babying" the younger one.

    Chocolate Milk, Lack of Sleep, and Parenting | The Stiletto Gang The Stiletto Gang 2008

  • More Cowherd: What Dibble said in the moment, with the information he had was -- we're kind of babying this guy -- [was] the way a lot of people felt.

    ESPN personalities defend Rob Dibble 2010

  • It seemed sometimes as if into that one short year of wifehood she had tried to crowd all the loving service and "babying" that had been accumulating through twenty years of lovelessness and loneliness.

    Pollyanna Grows Up 1914

  • It seemed sometimes as if into that one short year of wifehood she had tried to crowd all the loving service and "babying" that had been accumulating through twenty years of lovelessness and loneliness.

    Pollyanna Grows Up 1894

  • Instead, it was Lochte who emerged from the final turn with a solid lead, despite the fact that he came into the championships nursing a groin injury that he said he had been "babying" in training.

    Turkish Press 2010

  • Instead, it was Lochte who emerged from the final turn with a solid lead, despite the fact that he came into the championships nursing a groin injury that he said he had been "babying" in training.

    The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines 2010

  • This mother needs to kick her kids out of her house and stop "babying" her grown off spring.

    AltWeeklies.com Site Feed 2010

  • Giuffre said he was still "babying" the greens by allowing the grass to get shaggy in the heat.

    SI.com 2010

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