babyish

"What," said I, "does the puny creature mean by 'it'?" "He means himself," said the Sphere: "have you not noticed before now, that babies and babyish people who cannot distinguish themselves from the world, speak of themselves in the Third Person?

Why, said Stubb, eyeing the velvet vest and the watch and seals, you may as well begin by telling him that he looks a sort of babyish to me, though I don't pretend to be a judge.

"No?" drawled the dragonette; "it seems to me very babyish."

"It seems so babyish for me to be going to night school.

He invented what he called a "little language," using all sorts of quaint and babyish words and strange strings of capital letters, M.

Before she left home, she thought her new white muslin dress, with its fresh blue ribbons, the most elegant and proper costume she could have; but now, when she saw Fanny's pink silk, with a white tarlatan tunic, and innumerable puffings, bows, and streamers, her own simple little toilet lost all its charms in her eyes, and looked very babyish and old-fashioned.

Even when the sun shines brilliantly, it seldom touches the grand piano in the recess, or the folio music-books on the stand, or the book-shelves on the wall, or the unfinished picture of a blooming schoolgirl hanging over the chimneypiece; her flowing brown hair tied with a blue riband, and her beauty remarkable for a quite childish, almost babyish, touch of saucy discontent, comically conscious of itself.

- babyish. You ought to be slapped and put to bed." There was an extraordinary earnestness in her tone and when she ceased I listened yet to the seductive inflexions of her voice, that no matter in what mood she spoke seemed only fit for tenderness and love.

Bruno, the big actor, was so babyish that it was easy to send him off in brute sulks, banging the door.

405-408) `How were you able, you crafty rogue, to flay two cows, new-born and babyish as you are?

"The other side were ahead of me, he was a bit babyish and I could have done with some help, but he quickened very well."

And by the way, Boris Johnson will be PM and with a bit of luck we will leave at long last and people like you will end this undemocratic babyish nonsense.