英和和英

語源

From cry +‎ baby.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹaɪˌbeɪbi/

名詞

crybaby (複数形 crybabies)

1. A baby who cries excessively.
2. (slang) Someone whose feelings are very easily hurt, often by trivial matters.
   • 2023 February 10, Graeme Wood, “DEI Is an Ideological Test”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     Then he used the occasion to humiliate the provost, calling her an example of the censorious crybabies whom he had come to relieve of their responsibility.

3. (slang) Someone who takes offense or excessively complains when things aren't going well.
   • 1964, Harry S. Truman, MP2002-359 Former President Truman Discusses Using the Atomic Bomb to Stop the War‎^[2], Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162, 4:20 from the start:

     […] Now there are a lot of crybabies around who are talking about what ought to have done and the bomb ought to have had a demonstration in Japan before you killed all those people. […] I don't care what the crybabies say now because they didn't have to make the decision.

関連する語

• crybully
• cry like a baby

参考

• bellyacher
• complainer
• sniveler
• whiner
• whinger

動詞

crybaby (三人称単数 現在形 crybabies, 現在分詞 crybabying, 過去形および過去分詞形 crybabied)

1. (intransitive) to act like a crybaby.