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Babying vs Baying - What's the difference?

babying | baying |

As verbs the difference between babying and baying

is that babying is present participle of baby while baying is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between babying and baying

is that babying is the act of coddling or pampering somebody while baying is action of the verb to bay; howling.

babying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of coddling or pampering somebody.
  • * 1976 , Jean Rikhoff, The sweetwater (page 159)
    • She thought that if she had been beautiful instead of so plain then she might have made out better, but the plainness perhaps went the worst against her; it worked together with the babyings from an Indian;

    baying

    English

    Verb

    (head)
    • The mob approached the castle, baying for royal blood.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Action of the verb to bay ; howling.
    • She quickly grew weary of the beast's constant baying .
  • An instance of baying; a howl.
  • * 1877 , , book XXI
    • Soon as he hears bayings , and is not alarm'd nor affrighted...
  • * 1880 , , chapter 24
  • *:...the distressed bayings of his dogs, ...
  • * 1885 , ed. by , Volume XXXVI
    • And the thrill which their ill-omened bayings send through people at large is a measure of the state of tension in which the general mind is held.
  • * 1907 , , translated by Frank Justus Miller, Hercules Furens Act III
    • Who, tossing back and forth his triple heads,/ With mighty bayings watches o'er the realm.

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