Babysitter
//ˈbeɪbiˌsɪtɚ// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians.
"My neighbor is sometimes a babysitter for other mothers’ children."
- 2 a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home wordnet
- 3 A person who has to watch or attend to anything or anyone unnecessarily closely; a coddler or handholder. derogatory
"He said he did not want to be on tenterhooks worrying about us and having to act as a babysitter for grown men."
Example
More examples"The babysitter tried to sing the baby to sleep."
Etymology
From baby + sitter.
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