crybaby

UK /ˈkɹaɪˌbeɪbi/ US /ˈkɹaɪˌbeɪbi/
noun 3verb 1

Definitions

noun

1

A baby who cries excessively.

A notorious human crybaby, according to her older siblings, parents and the building superintendent, will cry for two hours every two hours, refusing to acknowledge any distinction between crying and other basic infant activities, like “being awake” or “breathing.”

2

Someone whose feelings are very easily hurt, often by trivial matters.

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

Someone who takes offense or excessively complains or cries when things are not going well.

[…]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.

verb

1

To act like a crybaby.

Out: Trash talk, dirty play, crybabying, showboating and players who can't be bothered to show up for games or keep their shoes on.

“I have learned the hard way,” she crybabied this week, “that we have to be fearless and loud in order to be heard, and to prepare for the backlash that occasionally comes with that outspokenness.”

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