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baba1 /ˈbɑːbɑː /(also rum baba) nounA small, rich sponge cake, typically soaked in rum-flavoured syrup: the cooked babas are hollowed out and filled with confectioners' custard...- The rich, light, delicate yeast cake, made from flour, eggs, butter, and sugar, is related to brioche, baba, and savarin.
- Well, a rum baba and a treacle tart were atypically heavy.
- Bring soaking liquor to the boil and drop the babas in, rolling them to soak all over and become bloated.
OriginVia French from Polish, literally 'married peasant woman'. baba2 /ˈbɑːbɑː /noun Indian informal1Father (often as a proper name or as a familiar form of address): ‘Baba and I have squabbled.’...- Asked who this man was, the child mumbled proudly ‘Amaar baba (my father).’
- When face-to-face, he would just call him baba (father).
- She answered her father fearlessly: ‘Baba Saheb, you still wish to be revenged’.
1.1A respectful form of address for an older man: ‘Sit down, baba, you like tea?’...- Sit down, baba, you like tea?
- Note that baba, on its own, can independently refer to an old wise man.
1.2 (often Baba) A holy man: Balyogi Baba was reputed to have been standing on one leg for eight years...- Not surprisingly, the one-armed baba and other members of the militant ascetic Juna Akhara sect are big fans of the Ram temple.
- Ghani's life takes a turn when he falls in love with a medico, Indu, living in an ashram there, run by a baba.
- My father later explained that it was about this Baba (holy man) who would supposedly materialize objects from thin air.
2A child, especially a male one: ‘Remove the paper whenever you are ready, baba.’...- The babas (girls and boys) are barely three or four years old.
- But officially sanctioned ‘dating’ and sexual intimacy - na baba na.
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