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  1. noun A baby; an infant.
  2. noun An innocent or naive person.
  3. noun Slang A young woman.
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babe:   babes
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  1. Middle English.

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  1. from Middle English babe, prob. abbreviation of earlier baban; origin obscure, perhaps ult. imitative; cf. ba. The Celtic words (W. Gaelic Irish Cornish baban = Manx baban, bab, a babe, child; regarded by Skeat after Williams (Lex. Cornu-Brit.) as a mutation of *maban, diminutive of Welsh mab, a son, = Gaelic Irish Manx mac, a son, = Gothic (Moesogothic) magus, a boy, = Anglo-Saxon magu, a son, related to may, may, might) are late, and may be from English
 

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