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# crybaby

«crybaby» in Mova's school dictionary: **someone, especially a child, who cries or complains…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a crybaby, crybabies; also cry-baby)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal, unkind) A crybaby is someone, especially a child, who cries or complains easily over small things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crybaby/#m1)

2) (informal) An adult who moans when things do not go their way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crybaby/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A playground taunt; in stories it tells the reader someone is being teased for crying. In PSHE lessons, it is a word that can hurt: everyone cries sometimes. Phrases: «don't be a crybaby», «called him a crybaby».

### examples

- The older boys called him a crybaby, which was mean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crybaby/#x1)
- «Stop being a crybaby,» said his sister, but he really was hurt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crybaby/#x2)
- The footballer acted like a crybaby when the referee gave a foul. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crybaby/#x3)
- It's okay to cry; it doesn't make you a crybaby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crybaby/#x4)
- The toddler is not a crybaby; she's just tired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crybaby/#x5)
- Calling someone a crybaby is a kind of teasing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crybaby/#x6)

### note

Plural «crybabies». Informal and unkind; better not to call people this. Spelt crybaby (US) or cry-baby (UK).

### In the corpora

- ["plaksa" means crybaby; it is unkind, especially to someone really upset.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/26-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crybaby» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crybaby/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.