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語源

Back-formation from babysitter.

発音

• IPA: /ˈbeɪ.bi.sɪt/

動詞

babysit (third-person singular simple present babysits, present participle babysitting, simple past and past participle babysat or (uncommon) babysitted)

1. (ambitransitive) To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.

   Synonym: childsit

   My daughter is babysitting for the Morgans at number ten, who are going out on a date night.

   We need someone to babysit our children while we go to the theater.

   • 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     Bart eventually gets Laura to babysit while Homer and Marge eat at the Sea Captain’s all-you-can-eat seafood joint, The Frying Dutchman.

2. (transitive, informal) To watch or tend a thing or process without normally intervening in it, e.g. as a precaution should an emergency happen.

   The reaction takes several hours, so we leave a graduate student to babysit it.

3. (transitive, informal) To watch or attend anything or anyone more closely than ought to be needed; to have to help or coax too much.

   Synonym: (partial) coddle

   He left me to babysit the new guy while he got some work done.

   • 2016, Christopher Vasey, Nazi Intelligence Operations in Non-Occupied Territories, page 175:

     It was observed by the FBI personnel assigned to “babysit” agent Tricycle that his egregiously excessive spending was causing unwanted attention […]

派生語

関連する語

• babysitter
• catsit
• dogsit
• housesit

発音

動詞

baby-sit (third-person singular simple present baby-sits, present participle baby-sitting, simple past and past participle baby-sat or (uncommon) baby-sitted)

1. Alternative spelling of babysit

関連する語

• baby-sitter