Definitions
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- adverb In the manner of a baby.
- adverb As one would a baby.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb like a baby
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Examples
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Our baby would be the happiest on the block, and we would certainly be baby-wise!
Devotional Stories for Mothers Susan M. Heim 2010
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Our baby would be the happiest on the block, and we would certainly be baby-wise!
Devotional Stories for Mothers Susan M. Heim 2010
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But thou slumberest, in baby-wise sleeping in this woeful ark; midst the darkness of the brazen rivet thou shinest and in the swart gloom sent forth; thou heedest not the deep foam of the passing wave above thy locks nor the voice of the blast as thou liest in thy purple covering, a sweet face.
A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang
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All this nonsense will make you think I am better, and indeed I am pretty well just now -- quite, however, confined to the bed -- except when lifted from it to the sofa baby-wise while they make it; even then apt to faint.
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He cuddled it, baby-wise, but he looked up from it often to curse with an astonishing utter abandon straight at the noses of his captors.
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He cuddled it, baby-wise, but he looked up from it often to curse with an astonishing utter abandon straight at the noses of his captors.
The Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 1895
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He cuddled it, baby-wise, but he looked up from it often to curse with an astonishing utter abandon straight at the noses of his captors.
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1885
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He cuddled it, baby-wise, but he looked up from it often to curse with an astonishing utter abandon straight at the noses of his captors.
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1885
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And the first object that his baby-wise eyes settled upon with content, as if in it there might be a possible answer to the riddle, was Floss!
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All this nonsense will make you think I am better, and indeed I am pretty well just now ” quite, however, confined to the bed ” except when lifted from it to the sofa baby-wise while they make it; even then apt to faint.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898
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