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Babe vs Teen - What's the difference?

babe | teen |

As nouns the difference between babe and teen

is that babe is a baby or infant; a very young human or animal while teen is a teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old.

As a verb teen is

to excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.

babe

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (literary, or, poetic) A baby or infant; a very young human or animal.
    • These events came to pass when he was but a babe .
  • (slang) An attractive person, especially a young woman.
    • She's a real babe !
  • Darling (term of endearment).
    • Hey, babe , how's about you and me getting together?

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "babe")

    Synonyms

    * (infant) baby, child, infant * (attractive person) ** (woman) hottie, doll, fox ** See: * (darling) darling, dear, love, sweetheart

    Derived terms

    * bikini babe * babe magnet * out of the mouths of babes

    Related terms

    * baby

    References

    See also

    * infant

    Anagrams

    * English affectionate terms ----

    teen

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . See (token).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) Grief, sorrow; suffering.
  • *, III.5:
  • *:In which the birds song many a lovely lay / Of Gods high praise, and of their loves sweet teene , / As it an earthly Paradize had beene.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), X, xxv:
  • *:The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen , / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.''
  • *
  • *:MIRANDA: O! my heart bleeds / To think o' th' teen that I have turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance.
  • *1866 , (Algernon Swinburne), :
  • *:Your soul forgot her joys, forgot/Her times of teen ;/Yea, this life likewise will you not/Forget
  • *1867 , (Matthew Arnold), A Southern Night :
  • *:With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone.
  • *1874 , , (The City of Dreadful Night), XXI:
  • *:That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, / In bronze sublimity she gazes forth / Over her Capital of teen and threne

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) . See Etymology 2 above.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
    • (Piers Plowman)

    Etymology 4

    See tine to shut

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, obsolete, provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.
    • (Halliwell)

    References

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    Anagrams

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