Definitions
Etymologies
- Back-formation from babysitter. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“McGovern, meanwhile, continued to "babysit" the film, now at Norton Air Force base in California.”
“OpEdNews - Quicklink: Bomb kills dozens in Iraqi city as US troops diverted to 'babysit' Cheney and McCain et al. Login”
“Bomb kills dozens in Iraqi city as US troops diverted to 'babysit' Cheney and McCain et al. Quicklink submitted by Amanda Lang”
“On top of that we now have some project students in the lab, we have to "babysit" for a while, until they are independent enough to cruise on their own.”
“On Saturday it was off to the house of patermunkey to "babysit" Ms Cait and ElectroBoy.”
“It's a pretty great job: You essentially "babysit" a celeb, walk them to the stage at the appropriate time, and in exchange, get a free breakfast and t-shirt out of the deal.”
“I guess though I kind of babysit at My First Moustache Shows ...”
“It's very frustrating much of the time, from both sides: Those working at the tactical or technical areas vent of often having to 'babysit' their Afghan counterparts and hold the hands (both figuratively and literally) of grown men through the simple process of talking to their own counterparts.”
“The charge, he says, came about after he lied to police so that they would lock him up, so that his family, who had watched helplessly as he fell apart, would not have to "babysit" him any more.”
“NFL Field Director Ed Mangan and his crew literally had to "babysit," the sod around the clock, even on holidays.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘babysit’.
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WF - list of EN back-formations
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_back-formations
aborigine, accrete, acculturate, admix, admixture, adolesce, adsorb, adulate, advect, aesthete, air-condition, anticline and 212 more...
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Baby Got Back-Formations
"A new word created by removing an affix from an already existing word, as vacuum clean from vacuum cleaner, or by removing what is mistakenly thought to be an affix, as pea from the earlier Englis...
resurrect, enthuse, couth, donate, emote, greed, isolate, manipulate, orate, prequel, spectate, upholster and 94 more...
Tweets
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gfss Apparently, one no longer babysits for a baby. Now, one babysits the baby--makes me wonder whether the sitter expects to hatch one. Terrible usage of the word. Feb 22, 2010