baby face
/ˈbeɪbi ˌfeɪs/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.05 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I now also saw that famous beauty, but in my opinion of a childish, simple, and baby face, Mademoiselle Querouaille [Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth], lately Maide of Honʳ to Madame, and now to be so to yᵉ Queen."
- "My Stomach ſvvells vvith ſecret Spight, / To ſee my fickle, faithleſs Knight, / […] / On a meer Girl his Thoughts to place, / VVith dimpl'd Cheeks and baby Face, / A Child! a Chit! that vvas not born, / VVhen I did Tovvn and Court adorn."
- "A Baby Face, no Life, no Airs, / But what ſhe learnt at Country Fairs; / Scarce knows what difference is between / Rich Flanders Lace, and Colberteen; […]"
- "[T]he jolly, broad, fooliſh, humorous, half-laughing, half-crying, baby-face of the Major extorted peals of laughter from all who were preſent."
- "Say that the Cherubs carved in stone, / […] / Used to sing in heavenly tone, / Above and round the sacred places / They guard, with wingèd baby-faces."
- "A little boy, who early discovered propensities to cruelty, was so thoroughly weaned from them, by his mother, that when attending to infantine lessons in Natural History, long before he was able to read, and hearing of a bird that was fond of catching flies, he lisped, with a kind of horror upon his baby[-]face, "Oh! kill flies! will God forgive it?""
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbeɪbi ˌfeɪs/
- British English: /ˈbeɪbɪ feɪs/