cry-babyn.
A derisive appellation for one who cries childishly.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun] > weeper > childishly
cry-baby1852
leaky1959
the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > coward(s) > one who cries childishly
boobyc1600
cry-baby1882
1852 A. Cary Clovernook 274 You had better be still, cry-baby.
1854 M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine xiii. 180 I wouldn't be such a cry-baby, anyway.
1858 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold i. iii. 51 Don't take on like that, for if the chaps see you they are sure to call you ‘cry-baby’.
1882 Advance 18 May 317 Tom called him a cry-baby, because his eyes were always full of tears.
1891 Sat. Rev. 21 Feb. 230/1 ‘I declare..that they're cry-baby chaps.’
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 509 Crybabby! Crocodile tears!
1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games ii. 76 There was a girl..with the reputation of a cry-baby.
Derivatives
cry-baby v. U.S. colloquial intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > weep [verb (intransitive)] > childishly
cry-baby1902
1902 O. Wister Virginian vii. 85 I am not crybabying to the judge.
1966 H. Kemelman Saturday Rabbi went Hungry (1967) xxvii. 181 I'd be the last one to crybaby on it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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