Babe is generally the slang term of endearment. Merriam-Webster states that the word is of Middle English origin, and the first recorded use was in the 14th century. The term may also refer to:
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Famous quotes containing the word babe:
“An when the earths as caulds the mune
An a its folk are lang syne deid,
On coontless stars the Babe maun cry
An the Crucified maun bleed.”
—Hugh MacDiarmid (18921978)
“Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.”
—William Lloyd Garrison (18051879)
“I have given suck, and know
How tender tis to love the babe that milks me;
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums
And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn
As you have done to this.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)