baby-wise
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.44 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
As one would a baby.
Example Sentences
- "Slowly his huge and inarticulate fist traveled to his eye, and stayed there baby-wise. / The young men of today do not cry. They turn Syndicalist instead; dimly conscious in the darkness of the wall that stands between them and the largesse of life that they feel to be their right, and flinging against that wall in an impotent fury of words and blows."
- "She clutched it in great haste, wrapped her apron about it, and carrying it baby-wise, ran fleetly off, casting apprehensive glances over her shoulder."
- "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."
Inflected Forms
more baby-wise (comparative)
most baby-wise (superlative)