English edit

Noun edit

babbie (plural babbies)

  1. Alternative spelling of babby
    • 2010, Rita Bradshaw, Forever Yours:
      A babbie robbed of her mam and da and two sets of families grieving.
    • 2011, Nina de la Mer, 4 a.m.:
      So even though I was greetin like a babbie the day my auntie Edie came tae take me away, and my ma was – what's it? incon-soul-able – I think it was the best thing fur wur family.
    • 2013, Benjamin Black, Holy Orders: A Quirke Novel, page 260:
      That she was granen—in the way of a babbie coming. And she hardly more than a babbie herself.