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Definition of Crybaby

1. Noun. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.

2. Noun. A person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining.

Definition of Crybaby

1. Noun. A baby that cries excessively. ¹

2. Noun. Someone whose feelings are very easily hurt, often by trivial matters. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crybaby

1. a person who cries easily [n -BIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crybaby

cry like a little girl cry off cry one's eyes out cry out cry out against cry out for cry reflex cry someone a river cry the blues cry uncle

cry wolf cryaesthesia cryalgesia cryanesthesia crybabies crybaby (current term) crybaby tree cryesthesia cryin' crying

crying(a) crying bird crying blue murder crying call crying calls crying off crying out crying out against crying out for crying shame

Literary usage of Crybaby

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Trukese-English Dictionary =: Pwpwuken Tettenin Fóós, Chuuk-Ingenes by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1990)
"call or cry out weew in distress or for help. crybaby ... be a crybaby ("cause eyes to be puffy"). ... be a crybaby, cry very much. crying chiwa- (unsp. ..."

2. Memoirs of a Winnerby Gary Ward Scott by Gary Ward Scott (2007)
""crybaby!," laugh the minority suits and tailored skirts at Friday night happy hour. Just wait till they give up all their newfound money, before they get ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly (1887)
"... and does not shrink from seizing its clouts with her naked hands. Now, she has the greatest patience with the ugly, piping crybaby" ..."

4. A Canyon Voyage: The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition Down the by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (1908)
"... or crybaby.1 In the morning, Sunday, July I4th, Johnson departed with Lee and we expected someone to arrive to bring us news of the Major and Prof., ..."

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