See Also: babe(dictionary)
babe(dictionary)
Hot Babe - Poker(gambling)
Babe (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Ruth, Babe(encyclopedia)
Babe Ruth(dictionary)
Ruth, Babe(dictionary)
Zaharias, Babe Didrikson(encyclopedia)
Zaharias, Mildred "Babe"(dictionary)

tycoon (iou) and babe (iou)


tycoon (iou)



tycoon noun. M19.
[Japanese taikun great lord or prince, from Chinese da great + jun prince.]
Hist. A title applied by foreigners to the shogun of Japan in power between 1857 and 1868. M19.
A business magnate. M19.
A. Brookner They will become tycoons, captains of industry. K. Vonnegut An American artist made as much money as many movie stars and tycoons.
tycoonery noun (a) the practice of a tycoon or tycoons; (b) a group of tycoons: M20.
tycoonish adjective characteristic of a tycoon M20.
tycoonship noun the status or position of a tycoon; the fact of being a tycoon: M20.

babe (iou)



babe noun. . LME.
[Prob. a contraction of an imit. form derived from childish utterance, similar to mama, papa: cf. Middle English baban.]
A young child, a baby. Chiefly biblical & arch. LME.
babe in arms a newborn baby. babe of clouts: see CLOUT noun1 4. milk for babes: see MILK noun 3a.
A childish, inexperienced, or guileless person. E16.
babe in Christ a person newly converted to Christianity. babes in the wood [with ref. to the old ballad The Children in the Wood] inexperienced persons.
= BABY noun 2. M-L16.
A girl or woman (freq. as a form of address). slang (chiefly N. Amer.). E20.