baby

1. (of vegetables, etc.) Picked when small and immature (as in baby corn, baby potatoes).usually

2. (in the comparative or superlative) Like or pertaining to a baby, in size or youth; small, young.Examples: "Spider. Here let us begin at the beginning, at the babyest of books for Edith's nursery."; "She let it drop out of her sleeve, and it was two Chings — the dearest, littlest, babyest, tiny Chings — little balls of fur! And she ran away, and daddy's father picked them up, and put them in his pockets, and brought them home, […]"; "Lemon-juice for ink spots: Not many weeks ago the babyest member of our household - perhaps moved by a hereditary tendency toward ink - slinging - divided the contents of an ink bottle impartially between the tiles of the bath-room floor ..."

1. (transitive) To coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant.Examples: "[…] though he tried to be gruff and mature, he yielded to her and was glad to be babied."; "Then the man effected measles and stayed off the job for six weeks, babying himself at home, though he lived just round the corner from my half-built house."transitive

2. (transitive) To tend (something) with care; to be overly attentive to (something), fuss over.Examples: "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."; "1912, Linda Craig, interviewed by Theresa Forte, "Tree and Twig farm — a treasure chest of heirloom tomatoes," Welland Tribune, 25 May, 2012, https://web.archive.org/web/20171205052150/http://www.wellandtribune.ca/2012/05/23/tree-and-twig-farm--a-treasure-chest-of-heirloom-tomatoes I have grown them for years and although some years are better than others, I have always had loads of tomatoes by not babying them, going easy on the water, and fertilizing with compost in the planting hole."transitive