baby talk

Definitions

1. The form of speech used by adults in talking to very young children.
   uncountable
2. The prelanguage, and subsequent developing language, used by small children, incorporating crying, cooing, and babbling in sequence before the acquisition of adult language capabilities.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Meronym: babble word”

“[...] while not a super-goof like⟳ some of the female goofs I'd met, she was quite goofy enough to be going on with. Her whole aspect was that of a girl who at the drop of a hat would start⟳ talking baby talk⟳.”

“Meronyms: babble word, goo goo ga ga”

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