noun

• (informal) A form of address to a person considered to be attractive.
  "Hey baby, what are you doing later?"
• (archaic) A small image of an infant; a doll.
• (often attributive) One who is new to an identity or community.
  "baby queer; baby trans"

adj

• (of vegetables, etc.) Picked when small and immature (as in baby corn, baby potatoes).
• (in the comparative or superlative) Like or pertaining to a baby, in size or youth; small, young.
  "Spider. Here let us begin at the beginning, at the babyest of books for Edith's nursery."

verb

• (transitive) To coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant.
  "[…] though he tried to be gruff and mature, he yielded to her and was glad to be babied."
• (transitive) To tend (something) with care; to be overly attentive to (something), fuss over.
  "In the past 27 years, "Mr. Mac," as he is known to his 46,000 teammates, has built and babied his McDonnell Co. from nothing into a $1 billion-a-year corporation."