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bab

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bab /bab /
▸ noun British English dialect
1 (especially in the English Midlands) a baby or young child:
why does my mom keep asking me if the royal bab is born—I'm not the royal correspondent.
2 (in the English Midlands) used as a friendly form of address:
‘I'll have an Americano, please.’ ‘Is that a big or little one, bab?’
not looking good for the Villa, bab, is it?.
– ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘a baby or young child’, originally in general use): variant spelling of babe.