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English
Etymology
From baby + -like.
Adjective
babylike (comparative more babylike, superlative most babylike)
- Resembling or characteristic of a baby.
2000 August 11, Tori Marlan, “A Most Dangerous Method”, in Chicago Reader:He told an English newspaper that he'd observed a woman tied to Robinson by a rope that represented an umbilical cord; on a subsequent visit he saw the same woman wearing diapers, sucking her thumb, and making babylike noises.
2004 June 4, Cliff Doerksen, “True Crime?”, in Chicago Reader:Rather, it had more to do with the still babylike Macek enjoying the touch, feel, and smell of the softer cotton fabric the crotch was made of, avoiding the coarser cotton in the rest of the panty.
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